Applevariety
Merton Delight
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, flat-round in shape; sweet, mildly tart and crisp. Picked in late September.
Origin · John Innes Institute, Merton, England
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour PinkBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- medium
Origin & family
Where Merton Delight began
Recorded origin
John Innes Institute, Merton, England
United Kingdom
Merton Delight’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Merton Delight
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 globose
- crunch
- crisp
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Golden Pippin
- over colour
- Pink
- 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.