Mercer
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Collected 1892. From Illinois, Sherrard Mercer County, U.S.A.. Collected by Mr Fluke.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- acid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye, slightly on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 63 mm
- Over colour
- flushed and striped dull orange brown
- Flesh colour
- white, tinged red
- Fruit height
- 52 mm
- Flesh texture
- fine, tender
- Ground colour
- golden
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Ribbing
- weak
- Coarseness
- fine
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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