Applevariety
Mers Bryan
A cooking apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; mildly tart and soft. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed dull brownish orange, pink or red streaksBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat to intermediate, conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 76-88 mmFruit height 63-76 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges prominent ribs base to apex
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- prominent ribs base to apex
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat to intermediate, conic, convex
- fruit width
- 76-88 mm
- over colour
- flushed dull brownish orange, pink or red streaks
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 63-76 mm
- flesh texture
- fine, rather soft
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.