Applevariety
Melrose (2)
Also known as Melrose
Melrose
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, introduced in 1944 and selected in 1937; sweet, tart, mildly tart and aromatic. Picked in early October.
Origin · Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio, USA
Released 1944
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- acidsubacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- slightly acid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and streaked dark brownish redBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 75 mmFruit height 61 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed on body and at eyeRusset pattern russet spots and patches
Origin & family
Where Melrose (2) began
Recorded origin
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio, USA
United States
- Selected
- 1937
- Released
- 1944
Melrose (2)’s family
6 varieties · 5 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Melrose (2)
Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster, Ohio, USA, United States
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- sports
- Dugamel Marstar
- flavour
- slightly acid
- ribbing
- ribbed on body and at eye
- synonyms
- Melrose
- parentage
- Jonathan x Delicious
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 75 mm
- over colour
- flushed and streaked dark brownish red
- russet type
- russet spots and patches
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 61 mm
- flesh texture
- firm, coarse
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.