Merton Charm
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by M.B.Crane at John Innes Institute, Merton, England. Released in 1962. It received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1960. Fruits have tender, fine-textured, very juicy flesh with a sweet and good aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 1st May (10%) · 6th May (full) · 13th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 57.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 51.00 mm
- Ribbing
- absent
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
Source · National Fruit Collection
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
View on the NFC site