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Merton Worcester
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by M.B.Crane at the John Innes Institute, Merton, England in 1914. Named in 1947. It received an Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1950. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, juicy flesh with a sweet and pleasant flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Worcester Pearmain
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 51.00mm 2
- Width
- 63.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- absent 2
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- high-very high 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 2
Accession No.
1979 - 176
- Accession name
- Merton Worcester (EMLA 1)
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering
17th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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