Applevariety
Melmoth
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · near Yeovil, Somerset, England
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 63.00 mmHeight 51.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Melmoth began
Recorded origin
near Yeovil, Somerset, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 63.00 mm
- height
- 51.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.