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Melmoth
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised near Yeovil, Somerset, England by Florence Melmoth. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1948. Fruits have firm, fine, white flesh with a subacid, slightly sweet flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 51.00mm 2
- Width
- 63.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- streaked 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1948 - 032
- Accession name
- Melmoth
- Flowering time ›››
- 9th May10% flowering
15th MayFull (80%) flowering
23rd May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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