Sweet Merlin
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Received 1954. Origin: Received from Cornwall.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 19th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, slightly subacid
- Ribbing
- strongly ribbed and bossed at eye, ribbed on body
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 71-83 mm
- Over colour
- striped light orange and red
- Russet type
- golden russet netting and patches
- Flesh colour
- yellowish white
- Fruit height
- 54-68 mm
- Skin texture
- slightly greasy
- Flesh texture
- firm, tender
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium-strong
- Shape
- Flat
- Width
- 74.02 mm
- Crunch
- crumbly
- Height
- 58.24 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- dry-medium
- Greasiness
- Strong
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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