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Merton Pearmain
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in 1934 by M.B.Crane at John Innes Institute, Merton, England. Fruits have firm, juicy flesh with an aromatic flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Laxton's Superb x Cox's Orange Pippin
Accession No.
1953 - 029
- Accession name
- Merton Pearmain
- Flowering time ›››
- 7th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering
19th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- medium-large 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low-medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low-medium 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Juiciness
- juicy 1
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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