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Hunter Melba
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
A tetraploid form of Melba. Fruits have fairly firm, crisp, juicy flesh with a refreshing vinous flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Sport of Melba
Accession No.
1974 - 060
- Accession name
- Hunter Melba
- Flowering time ›››
- 3rd May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
15th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid August 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Flat 1
- Height
- 56.27 mm 1
- Width
- 76.14 mm 1
- Ribbing
- strong 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Dark Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- solid flush 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019