Applevariety
Merton Charm
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, flat in shape; sweet, aromatic, juicy and crisp. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · John Innes Institute, Merton, England
Released 1962
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour BrownBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage very low
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Flat
- Size
- mediumWidth 57.00 mmHeight 51.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges absent
Origin & family
Where Merton Charm began
Recorded origin
John Innes Institute, Merton, England
United Kingdom
- Released
- 1962
Merton Charm’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Merton Charm
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
- Flat
- width
- 57.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 51.00 mm
- ribbing
- absent
- parentage
- McIntosh x Cox's Orange Pippin
- over colour
- Brown
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- very low
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.