Applevariety
Merton Worcester
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape, named in 1947; sweet, juicy, crisp and firm. Picked in early September.
Origin · John Innes Institute, Merton, England
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellowSurface colour coverage high-very high
- Flesh
- Cream
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Size
- mediumWidth 63.00 mmHeight 51.00 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges absent
Origin & family
Where Merton Worcester began
Recorded origin
John Innes Institute, Merton, England
United Kingdom
Merton Worcester’s family
5 varieties · 4 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Merton Worcester
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
- Broad globose conical
- width
- 63.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 51.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- absent
- firmness
- firm
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Worcester Pearmain
- coarseness
- fine
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Cream
- ground colour
- Green yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.