Melmoth
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised near Yeovil, Somerset, England by Florence Melmoth. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1948. Fruits have firm, fine, white flesh with a subacid, slightly sweet flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 15th May (full) · 23rd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 63.00 mm
- Height
- 51.00 mm
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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