Melon
syn. Amerikanischer Melonen Apfel, Amerikansk Melonaeble, Arnerikanischer Melonenapfel, Arnerikansk Melon, Melon Apple, Melon d'Arnerique, Melon de Norton, Melon Norton, Norton, Norton Watermelon, Norton's Melon, Pomme Melon d'Amerique, Pomme Norton, Watermelon
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in about 1800 with Heman Chapin, East Bloomfield, Ontario County, New York, USA from seed brought from Connecticut. Introduced in 1845. Fruits have firm, fine, crisp, tender, yellowish flesh with a subacid and aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 10th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 21st May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 76.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 63.00 mm
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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