Merton Joy
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1946 by M.B. Crane at John Innes Institute, Merton, England. It was named in 1965. Fruits have firm, crisp, somewhat coarse-textured, juicy flesh with a slightly acid, pleasant aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 63.00 mm
- Height
- 51.00 mm
- Ribbing
- absent
- Firmness
- soft
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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