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Meri Cretesti
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1951 - 191
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1951 from Romania. Fruits have somewhat soft, coarse flesh with an acid flavour.
- Accession name
- Meri Cretesti
- Flowering time ›››
- 3rd May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
15th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid September 1
- Size
- small-medium 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- very weak 1
- Crown
- absent 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/washed out 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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