Applevariety
Sweet Merlin
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-September.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firmtender
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, slightly subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour striped light orange and redSkin texture slightly greasyBackground colour yellow
- Flesh
- yellowish white
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 71-83 mmFruit height 54-68 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strongly ribbed and bossed at eye, ribbed on bodyRusset pattern golden russet netting and patches
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly sweet, slightly subacid
- ribbing
- strongly ribbed and bossed at eye, ribbed on body
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 71-83 mm
- over colour
- striped light orange and red
- russet type
- golden russet netting and patches
- flesh colour
- yellowish white
- fruit height
- 54-68 mm
- skin texture
- slightly greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, tender
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.