Melba
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1898 by W.T. Macoun at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada. Introduced in 1909. It received the Silver Wilder Medal from the American Pomological Society in 1927. Fruits have firm, crisp, white, juicy flesh with a refreshing vinous flavour. Skin is aromatic.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid August
- Flowering
- 3rd May (10%) · 8th May (full) · 14th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid, sweet
- Ribbing
- ribbed on body and at eye
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 57-63 mm
- Over colour
- pinkish stripes and flecks
- Flesh colour
- very white
- Fruit height
- 44-51 mm
- Skin texture
- white bloom
- Flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- Ground colour
- pale yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Crunch
- crisp
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Pink
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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