Margil
syn. Fail-me-Never, Gewurz Reinette, Gezuckerte Bisam Reinette, Gezuckerte Bisam-Reinette, Herefordshire Margil, Kleine Granat Reinette, Kleine Granat-Reinette, Margil Hook, Margile, Margill, Margille, Monymusk, Munche's Pippin, Munches Pippin, Muscadet, Muscat, Muscat Reinette, Muscat-Reinette, Muscate, Muscate-Reinette, Muscateller Reinette, Muscateller-Reinette, Muscaten Reinette, Muscaten-Reinette, Muscatin Reinette, Musckaten Reinette, Muskat Reinette, Muskat Rennet, Muskat-Reinette, Muskateller, Muskateller Reinette, Muskaten Reinette, Muskaten-Reinette, Muskatova Reneta, Muskirte Reinette, Muskotaly Renet, Musquee, Neue Muskat Reinette, Neue Muskat-Reinette, Never Fail, Never-Fail, Neverfail, Newer Fail, Reinette d'Hiver Musquee, Reinette d'Hiver Sucree, Reinette Douce de France, Reinette Douce et Jaune, Reinette Douce Musquee, Reinette Muscat, Reinette Muscaten, Reinette Musque, Reinette Musquee, Reinette Sucree, Renet Muscat, Renet Muscus, Renet Muskatmi, Renet muskatnyi, Renet Tamiios, Reneta Muskatova, Reneta Muszkatowa, Renetta Moscata, Renetta Muschiata, Small Ribston, Small Ribston Pippin, Small Ribstone, Sucree d'Hiver, White Margil
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to have originated in Europe. It was known in England before 1750. Fruits have firm, rather dry flesh with a sweet and rich aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, rich, aromatic
- Ribbing
- prominent ribs at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- small to medium
- Fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, conic to truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 47-63 mm
- Over colour
- streaked deep red
- Russet type
- russet patches
- Flesh colour
- yellow
- Fruit height
- 43-54 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- orange
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Width
- 66.29 mm
- Height
- 59.58 mm
- Russet
- low-medium
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- dry-medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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