Applevariety
Merton Joy
A dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in 1946 and named in 1965; tart, aromatic, juicy and crisp. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · John Innes Institute, Merton, England
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- soft
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour YellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 63.00 mmHeight 51.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges absent
Origin & family
Where Merton Joy began
Recorded origin
John Innes Institute, Merton, England
United Kingdom
Merton Joy’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Merton Joy
John Innes Institute, Merton, England, United Kingdom
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Cox's Orange Pippin → Merton JoyParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 63.00 mm
- height
- 51.00 mm
- ribbing
- absent
- firmness
- soft
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin X Sturmer Pippin x Cox's Orange Pippin
- over colour
- Orange
- 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.