Merton Favourite
Merton Favourite is a sweet cherry in the UK's National Fruit Collection. Brogdale rates its firmness soft or medium, with medium red flesh and dark red or blackish skin.
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Taste & texture
- Firmness
- soft/medium
Collection entry: Merton Favourite (EMLA) · 1980-089
context: Unpublished NFC characterisation, Brogdale, Kent; accession observations, not a universal cultivar guarantee.
nationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗Context & source
NFC characterization at Brogdale belongs to the named collection entry. A page can contain separate accessions; values stay attached to that entry.
- /details/observations/0/value/0/context
- Unpublished NFC characterisation, Brogdale, Kent; accession observations, not a universal cultivar guarantee.
How to spot it
- Skin
- dark red/blackish
Collection entry: Merton Favourite (EMLA) · 1980-089
context: Unpublished NFC characterisation, Brogdale, Kent; accession observations, not a universal cultivar guarantee.
nationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗Context & source
NFC characterization at Brogdale belongs to the named collection entry. A page can contain separate accessions; values stay attached to that entry.
- /details/observations/0/value/4/context
- Unpublished NFC characterisation, Brogdale, Kent; accession observations, not a universal cultivar guarantee.
- Flesh
- Medium Red
Collection entry: Merton Favourite (EMLA) · 1980-089
context: Unpublished NFC characterisation, Brogdale, Kent; accession observations, not a universal cultivar guarantee.
nationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗Context & source
NFC characterization at Brogdale belongs to the named collection entry. A page can contain separate accessions; values stay attached to that entry.
- /details/observations/0/value/1/context
- Unpublished NFC characterisation, Brogdale, Kent; accession observations, not a universal cultivar guarantee.
- Size
- Stalk length30.72 mm
Collection entry: Merton Favourite (EMLA) · 1980-089
context: Unpublished NFC characterisation, Brogdale, Kent; accession observations, not a universal cultivar guarantee.
nationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗Context & source
NFC accession measurement at Brogdale, Kent. The observation year, sample size and summary statistic are not supplied.
- /details/observations/0/value/3/context
- Unpublished NFC characterisation, Brogdale, Kent; accession observations, not a universal cultivar guarantee.
- Weight
- 7.60 g
Collection entry: Merton Favourite (EMLA) · 1980-089
context: Unpublished NFC characterisation, Brogdale, Kent; accession observations, not a universal cultivar guarantee.
nationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗Context & source
NFC characterization at Brogdale belongs to the named collection entry. A page can contain separate accessions; values stay attached to that entry.
- /details/observations/0/value/2/context
- Unpublished NFC characterisation, Brogdale, Kent; accession observations, not a universal cultivar guarantee.
- Appearance
- Juice colourred
Collection entry: Merton Favourite (EMLA) · 1980-089
context: Unpublished NFC characterisation, Brogdale, Kent; accession observations, not a universal cultivar guarantee.
nationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗Context & source
NFC characterization at Brogdale belongs to the named collection entry. A page can contain separate accessions; values stay attached to that entry.
- /details/observations/0/value/6/context
- Unpublished NFC characterisation, Brogdale, Kent; accession observations, not a universal cultivar guarantee.
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
descriptor observations
- trait
- firmness
- value
- soft/medium
- context
- Unpublished NFC characterisation, Brogdale, Kent; accession observations, not a universal cultivar guarantee.
- source url
- nationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- trait
- flesh color
- value
- Medium Red
- context
- Unpublished NFC characterisation, Brogdale, Kent; accession observations, not a universal cultivar guarantee.
- source url
- nationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- trait
- fruit weight reported
- value
- 7.60 g
- context
- Unpublished NFC characterisation, Brogdale, Kent; accession observations, not a universal cultivar guarantee.
- source url
- nationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- trait
- stalk length reported
- value
- 30.72 mm
- context
- Unpublished NFC characterisation, Brogdale, Kent; accession observations, not a universal cultivar guarantee.
- source url
- nationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- trait
- skin color
- value
- dark red/blackish
- context
- Unpublished NFC characterisation, Brogdale, Kent; accession observations, not a universal cultivar guarantee.
- source url
- nationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- trait
- pistil shape
- value
- depressed
- context
- Unpublished NFC characterisation, Brogdale, Kent; accession observations, not a universal cultivar guarantee.
- source url
- nationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗
- trait
- juice color
- value
- red
- context
- Unpublished NFC characterisation, Brogdale, Kent; accession observations, not a universal cultivar guarantee.
- source url
- nationalfruitcollection.org.uk ↗