Applevariety
Merton Knave
Also known as Merton Ace
Merton Ace
A dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, round in shape, raised in 1948; sweet, mildly tart, juicy and crisp. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · John Innes Institute, Merton, England
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid, rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour extensive flush of deep bright red and a few streaksSkin texture smooth, very greasy, tenderBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white, tinged yellow beneath skin
- Shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 55-70 mmFruit height 51-62 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern a little fine russet mainly at base, some russet dots
Origin & family
Where Merton Knave began
Recorded origin
John Innes Institute, Merton, England
United Kingdom
Merton Knave’s family
9 varieties · 8 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Merton Knave
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
- flavour
- sweet, subacid, rich
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Merton Ace
- parentage
- Laxton's Early Crimson x Epicure
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 55-70 mm
- over colour
- extensive flush of deep bright red and a few streaks
- russet type
- a little fine russet mainly at base, some russet dots
- flesh colour
- greenish white, tinged yellow beneath skin
- fruit height
- 51-62 mm
- skin texture
- smooth, very greasy, tender
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.