Margil
Also known as Fail-me-Never +66
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A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; sweet, aromatic, firm and dry. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- sweet, rich, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour streaked deep redBackground colour orange
- Flesh
- yellow
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, conic to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- small to mediumFruit width 47-63 mmFruit height 43-54 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges prominent ribs at eye and on bodyRusset pattern russet patches
Origin & family
Margil’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
Margil
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Margil → Saint EverardParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, rich, aromatic
- ribbing
- prominent ribs at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Fail-me-Never, Gewurz Reinette, Gezuckerte Bisam Reinette, Gezuckerte Bisam-Reinette, Herefordshire Margil, Kleine Granat Reinette, Kleine Granat-Reinette, Margil Hook, Margile, Margill, Margille, Monymusk, Munche's Pippin, Munches Pippin, Muscadet, Muscat, Muscat Reinette, Muscat-Reinette, Muscate, Muscate-Reinette, Muscateller Reinette, Muscateller-Reinette, Muscaten Reinette, Muscaten-Reinette, Muscatin Reinette, Musckaten Reinette, Muskat Reinette, Muskat Rennet, Muskat-Reinette, Muskateller, Muskateller Reinette, Muskaten Reinette, Muskaten-Reinette, Muskatova Reneta, Muskirte Reinette, Muskotaly Renet, Musquee, Neue Muskat Reinette, Neue Muskat-Reinette, Never Fail, Never-Fail, Neverfail, Newer Fail, Reinette d'Hiver Musquee, Reinette d'Hiver Sucree, Reinette Douce de France, Reinette Douce et Jaune, Reinette Douce Musquee, Reinette Muscat, Reinette Muscaten, Reinette Musque, Reinette Musquee, Reinette Sucree, Renet Muscat, Renet Muscus, Renet Muskatmi, Renet muskatnyi, Renet Tamiios, Reneta Muskatova, Reneta Muszkatowa, Renetta Moscata, Renetta Muschiata, Small Ribston, Small Ribston Pippin, Small Ribstone, Sucree d'Hiver, White Margil
- father to
- Saint Everard
- fruit size
- small to medium
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, conic to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 47-63 mm
- over colour
- streaked deep red
- russet type
- russet patches
- flesh colour
- yellow
- fruit height
- 43-54 mm
- flesh texture
- firm
- ground colour
- orange
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.