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Merton Charm
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by M.B.Crane at John Innes Institute, Merton, England. Released in 1962. It received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1960. Fruits have tender, fine-textured, very juicy flesh with a sweet and good aromatic flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- McIntosh x Cox's Orange Pippin
- Shape
- Flat 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 51.00mm 2
- Width
- 57.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- absent 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Brown 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- very low 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1963 - 154
- Accession name
- Merton Charm (M133)
- Flowering time ›››
- 1st May10% flowering
6th MayFull (80%) flowering
13th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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