Mers Bryan

Culinary apple

Malus domestica Borkh.

Availability
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Accession No.
1947 - 306   fingerprint   check_circle

Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1947 from France. Fruits have fine, rather soft, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavour.

Accession name
Mers Bryan

Flowering time
9th May 10% flowering
14th May Full (80%) flowering
22nd May 90% petal fall

Picking time
Late October ¹

Size
large ¹

Type
Culinary ¹

Shape
Truncate conical ¹

Ribbing
weak-medium ¹

Crown
medium ¹

Ground Colour
Whitish yellow ¹

Over Colour (Amount)
medium-high ¹

Over Colour
Orange ¹

Over Colour (Pattern)
striped/solid flush ¹

Russet
very low ¹

Firmness
soft-medium ¹

Coarseness
fine ¹

Flesh Colour
Cream ¹

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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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