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Merton Pippin
type: Dessert
identification: Large, round-conic and sometimes angular sides. The base colour is green over which is a pattern of thin, red striping. The calyx is medium size and partly open, set in a medium-deep, wide and rippled basin. The stem is medium long, and medium stout, set in a somewhat deep and funnel-shaped basin.
characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured and crisp. Juicy, sweet-sharp.
uses: Dessert
origins: A cross of Cox’s Orange Pippin and Sturmer Pippin raised by M.B. Crane at the John Innes Horticultural Institute in Merton, Surrey (U.K.) starting in 1914. Introduced in 1948.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous.
cold storage: Keeps five months in cold storage.
harvest: Ready for harvest in the middle of the fifth period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 15
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 20
harvest period: 5
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