Merton Russet
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised in 1921 at the John Innes Horticultural Institute, Merton, England by M.B.Crane. It was named in 1943. Fruits have firm, crisp, tender flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 3rd May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Width
- 57.00 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 54.00 mm
- Russet
- high-very high
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- firm
- Greasiness
- Weak
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
Source · National Fruit Collection
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