Applevariety
Merton Russet
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, raised in 1921 and named in 1943; sweet, mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · John Innes Horticultural Institute, Merton, England
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness WeakSurface colour RedBackground colour Yellow
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 57.00 mmHeight 54.00 mm
- Appearance
- high-very highSurface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Merton Russet began
Recorded origin
John Innes Horticultural Institute, Merton, England
United Kingdom
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 57.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 54.00 mm
- russet
- high-very high
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Sturmer Pippin x Cox's Orange Pippin
- greasiness
- Weak
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.