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Red Melba
type: Dessert
synonyms: Melred, Pate Red Melba, Platts Red Melba
summary: A highly-coloured mutation of Melba that originated in 1936 at the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa, Ontario (Canada). Introduced in 1940. According to the "Register of New Fruit and Nut Varieties" by Reid Merrifield Brooks, Harold Paul Olmo (published 1952) there is also a second version of Melred's development which suggests that the apple was found "among a lot of nursery trees from the Wellington and Davidson Nurseries, Fonthill, Ontario, Canada. Introduced commercially in the 1940s."
progeny: Quinte
pollination peak: 1
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