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Merchant Apple
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated in Somerset, England. First described in 1872. Fruits have soft, fine, greenish cream flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Ladies' Hearts, Merchant Apple of Ilminster, The Merchant Apple, The Merchant Apple of Ilminster
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Oblong 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 61.00mm 2
- Width
- 64.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- streaked 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Greasiness
- Medium 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1948 - 021
- Accession name
- Merchant Apple
- Flowering time ›››
- 9th May10% flowering
14th MayFull (80%) flowering
22nd May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late September 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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