Merton Delight
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by M.B.Crane at John Innes Institute, Merton, England. It was discarded in Britain in 1959. Fruits have tender, crisp, creamy flesh with a sweet to subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late September
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Crunch
- crisp
- Over colour
- Pink
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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