Margil

Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.

Dessert

Origin

Normandy, France

Measured Phenotype

Brix: 12.3 °Bx
Titratable acidity: 3.46 g/L
Juice pH: 4.00
Fruit height: 59.6 mm
Fruit width: 66.3 mm

Each value is the highest-precedence :Assertion attached to this cultivar; full provenance (year, evidence type, confidence) is preserved in the graph.

Margil is a small, conical dessert apple with orange skin heavily streaked with deep red and russet patches. The flesh is yellow, firm, juicy, rich, and sugary with a powerful aromatic flavor, considered one of the finest dessert apples and a rival to the Ribston Pippin. It is hardy, generally an abundant bearer, and in use from November to February; the tree is well-suited to dwarfs or espaliers.

Flavor & Texture

sweetaromaticfirmcrisp

Best Uses

fresh_eating

1 historical watercolor from the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection (1886–1942) included in the gallery above. Public domain.

Lineage

Offspring

Cox Orange Pippin Ribston Ribston Pippin agm Easter Orange Oberlausitzer Muskatrenette September Beauty

Origin & History

Status: commercial
Origin type: found wilding
Known by: ≥ 1750

richsugaryaromatic

Disease Resistance

Fire blight: highly susceptible

Cornell Apple Variety Database.

References

USDA-NPGS: PI 264558
UK National Fruit Collection: 3785
Wikidata: Q1955347
MUNQ ID: 732
Cited authority (Hogg 1851): Hook