Applevariety
Red Melba
Also known as Melred +2
Melred · Pate Red Melba · Platts Red Melba
A wine-like, juicy, crisp and firm dessert apple introduced in 1940. Picked in mid-August.
Origin · Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Released 1940
Taste & texture
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- vinous
- Used for
- Dessert apple
Origin & family
Where Red Melba began
Recorded origin
Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa
Canada
- Released
- 1940
Red Melba’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Red Melba
Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- type
- Dessert
- synonyms
- Melred, Pate Red Melba, Platts Red Melba
- father to
- Quinte
- parentage
- Sport of Melba
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.