Applevariety
Golden Melon
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in 1931 and named in 1948; sweet, firm and soft. Picked in early October.
Origin · Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- soft
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellow
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 65.00 mmHeight 56.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Golden Melon began
Recorded origin
Aomori Apple Experiment Station
Japan
Golden Melon’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Golden Melon
Aomori Apple Experiment Station, Japan
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 65.00 mm
- height
- 56.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- Golden Delicious x Indo
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
Other apple varieties
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.