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Mere de Menage
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Known in the late 1700s. Fruits have firm, greenish, rather coarse-textured and rather dry flesh with an acid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Bellefleur de France, Brietling, Burton's Beauty, Capp Mammoth, Combermere, Combermere Apple, Dame de Menage, de Livre, Der Gelbe Tellerapfel, Femme de Menage, Femme-de-Menage, Flander's Pippin, Flanders Pippin, Flanders' Pippin, Gelbe Tellerapfel, German Spa, Gloria Mundi, Gros Rambour d'Hiver, Gros Rambour Wildling, Gros-Rambour d'Hiver, Grosser Pfund Rambour, Grosser Pfund Rambour Wildling, Grosser Rambour, Hans Mutterchen, Hansmutterchen, Harlow Pippin, Haus Mutterche, Haus Mutterchen, Hausmutterche, Hausmutterchen, Hounslow Seedling, Husmoder, Husmodersapple, Khozyayushka, la Menagere, Libra, Livre, Lord Combermere, Menage, Menagere, Menagerie, Mere-de-Menage, Monstreuese de Nikita, Monstrueuse de Nikita, Monstrueuse de Nykita, Pfund, Pfund Rambour-Wildling, Pomme de Livre, Queen Emma, Rambour d'Amerique, Rambour Gos, Red German, Reisenapfel, Riesen- Apfel, Riesenapfel, Teller, Winter Colmar
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Tredomen)
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- large 2
- Height
- 75.50mm 2
- Width
- 90.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium-strong 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Juiciness
- dry 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
2000 - 067
- Accession name
- Mere de Menage
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering 18th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Early October 1



- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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