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Melrose (2)
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by Freeman S. Howlett at Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio, USA. Selected in 1937 and introduced in 1944. Fruits have creamy white, moderately firm, a little coarse-textured, juicy flesh, with a pleasant sweet, subacid, slightly aromatic flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Melrose
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Sports:
- Dugamel
- Marstar
Accession No.
1952 - 019
- Accession name
- Melrose (2)
- Flowering time ›››
- 7th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering
17th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- medium 1
- Crown
- strong 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium-high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/solid flush 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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