Mers Bryan
Culinary apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1947 - 306
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 May10% flowering
14th MayFull (80%) flowering 22nd May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Truncate conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium-high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/solid flush 1
- Russet
- very low 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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
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