Melon

Measured Phenotype

Brix

12.6 °Bx

source: GRIN

Fruit height

63.0 mm

source: NFC

Fruit width

76.0 mm

source: NFC

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

Melon is a dessert apple with crisp, tender, juicy flesh and a pleasantly subacid flavor, especially suitable for local markets and fancy trade. It develops best under favorable conditions with good size and attractive coloring, but proves unreliable in commercial orchards with high losses from undersized or poorly colored fruit. The variety is moderately hardy and productive but is now seldom grown or offered by nurserymen.

Flavor & Texture

Best Uses

Lineage

Origin & History

Status

heritage

Origin type

chance seedling

First introduced

1845 · Ellwanger and Barry

Known by

≥ 1800

References

USDA-NPGS

PI 342430

UK National Fruit Collection

3905

Wikidata

Q22285927