Pomiferous
Welcome to the world's most extensive apples (pommes) database.
Information on over 7,000 apples is available here, all carefully researched and provided in a way that is easy to navigate.
Merton Russet
type: Dessert
identification: Small, round?conic tending to conic. The skin is yellow, sometimes with a faint red blush on the sun exposed face and covered with a network of cinnamon russet. The eye is medium large and closed, set in a shallow, pleated basin. The stem is long and slender, set in a deep and narrow cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is greenish, firm, crisp and tender. Moderately juicy and sweet with an acid drop flavour. The initial sharpness tends to mellow in storage. Keeps four months in cold storage.
uses: dessert
origins: London UK 1921Sturmer Pippin, Cox’s Orange Pippin Raised by M.B. Crane at the John Innes Horticultural Institu Merton, Surrey (UK) during the mid 1900s — Strummer Pippin x Cox s Orange Pippin, 1921, M. B. Crane, John Innes Institute, Merton, London, England, named, 1943
cultivation: Vigorous, upright spreading tree. Bears fruit on spurs. Heavy crops that ripen in the middle of the FOURTH period.
vulnerabilities: Highly susceptible to mildew, resistant to both canker and scab.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 9
ploidism: Self sterile. Group C. Day 9.
Donate a cider?
©2016-2021 Pomiferous.com. All rights reserved