Peche Melba
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Brought to England in 1930 from County Kilkenny, Ireland. Fruits have firm, coarse, rather dry flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late August
- Flowering
- 9th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 70.00 mm
- Height
- 55.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- dry
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour pattern
- streaked
Source · National Fruit Collection
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