Merton Pippin
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised at John Innes Horticultural Institute, Merton, England by M.B.Crane. Introduced in 1948 but discarded in Britain in 1959. Fruits have whitish cream flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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