Melrose

Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.

Culinary / Dessert

Introduced

1937

Origin

Border counties, Scottish Tweedside orchards, United Kingdom

Measured Phenotype

Brix: 14.8 °Bx
Fruit height: 76.0 mm
Fruit width: 82.0 mm

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

sweetsubacidfirm

Best Uses

fresh_eating

Lineage

Parents

Jonathan Delicious

Origin & History

Status: heritage

sweet subacid

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): H