Applevariety
Merton Prolific
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, raised in 1914 and named in 1947; sweet, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-October.
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Origin · John Innes Horticultural Institute, Merton, England
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Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour pattern streaked
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 61.00 mmHeight 50.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Merton Prolific began
Recorded origin
John Innes Horticultural Institute, Merton, England
United Kingdom
Merton Prolific’s family
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Merton Prolific
John Innes Horticultural Institute, Merton, England, United Kingdom
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 61.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 50.00 mm
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Northern Greening x Cox's Orange Pippin
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour pattern
- streaked