Applevariety
Merchant Apple
Also known as Ladies' Hearts +3
Ladies' Hearts · Merchant Apple of Ilminster · The Merchant Apple · The Merchant Apple of Ilminster
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and green-yellow skin, oblong in shape; mildly tart and soft. Picked in late September.
Origin · Somerset, England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- mediumWidth 64.50 mmHeight 61.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak-medium
Origin & family
Where Merchant Apple began
Recorded origin
Somerset, England
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 64.50 mm
- height
- 61.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- weak-medium
- firmness
- soft
- synonyms
- Ladies' Hearts, Merchant Apple of Ilminster, The Merchant Apple, The Merchant Apple of Ilminster
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.