1 / 3Melrose
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Culinary / Dessert
Measured Phenotype
- Brix
- 14.8 °Bx
- Fruit height
- 76.0 mm
- Fruit width
- 82.0 mm
source: GRIN
source: NFC
source: NFC
Each value is the highest-precedence :Assertion attached to this cultivar; full provenance (year, evidence type, confidence) is preserved in the graph.
Melrose is a large, roundish-ovate apple with pale yellow skin tinged green on the shaded side and orange-yellow with crimson spots where exposed to sun. The flesh is yellowish-white, firm yet tender, with a sweet and pleasantly subacid flavor. A valuable variety suitable for both culinary use and dessert, it ripens October to January and is particularly popular in the Scottish Border counties, though relatively unknown beyond its native district.
Flavor & Texture
Best Uses
Lineage
Origin & History
- Status
- heritage
Disease Resistance
- Apple scab
- highly susceptible
- Fire blight
- highly resistant
- Cedar-apple rust
- resistant
Cornell Apple Variety Database.
References
- USDA-NPGS
- PI 589362
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 3906
- Wikidata
- Q1669886
- Cited authority (Hogg 1851)
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