Merchant Apple
syn. Ladies' Hearts, Merchant Apple of Ilminster, The Merchant Apple, The Merchant Apple of Ilminster
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in Somerset, England. First described in 1872. Fruits have soft, fine, greenish cream flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 14th May (full) · 22nd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Oblong
- Width
- 64.50 mm
- Height
- 61.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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