Applevariety
Merton Beauty
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in 1933; juicy, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · John Innes Institute, Merton, England
Taste & texture
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 63.00 mmHeight 51.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Merton Beauty began
Recorded origin
John Innes Institute, Merton, England
United Kingdom
Merton Beauty’s family
5 varieties · 5 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Merton Beauty
John Innes Institute, Merton, England, United Kingdom
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 63.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 51.00 mm
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Ellison's Orange x Cox's Orange Pippin
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.