Melrose (2)
syn. Melrose
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Freeman S. Howlett at Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio, USA. Selected in 1937 and introduced in 1944. Fruits have creamy white, moderately firm, a little coarse-textured, juicy flesh, with a pleasant sweet, subacid, slightly aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- slightly acid
- Ribbing
- ribbed on body and at eye
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 75 mm
- Over colour
- flushed and streaked dark brownish red
- Russet type
- russet spots and patches
- Flesh colour
- creamy white
- Fruit height
- 61 mm
- Flesh texture
- firm, coarse
- Ground colour
- yellowish green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- strong
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium-high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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