Applevariety
Mercer
A dessert apple with white flesh and yellow skin, flat-round in shape; tart. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- tender
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and striped dull orange brownBackground colour golden
- Flesh
- white, tinged red
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 63 mmFruit height 52 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, slightly on body
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, slightly on body
- parentage
- M. ioensis x M. pumila
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 63 mm
- over colour
- flushed and striped dull orange brown
- flesh colour
- white, tinged red
- fruit height
- 52 mm
- flesh texture
- fine, tender
- ground colour
- golden
- flowering time
- late
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.