Merton Beauty

Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.

Dessert

Introduced

1962

Origin

England, United Kingdom

Measured Phenotype

Brix: 13.8 °Bx
Fruit height: 51.0 mm
Fruit width: 63.0 mm

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

Merton Beauty is an English dessert apple introduced in 1962, bred from Ellisons Orange and Cox Orange. It's a greenish-yellow apple with a red flush and distinctive aniseed-flavored flesh, ready to pick in early September.

Flavor & Texture

anise

Best Uses

fresh_eating

Lineage

Parents

Ellison's Orange Ellison's Orange x Cox's Orange Pippin

Origin & History

Origin type: deliberate cross

References

USDA-NPGS: PI 205460
UK National Fruit Collection: 3931
Wikidata: Q41779382