Apple - Merlin's Apple

£26.00 - £40.00
Type: 
Dessert
Ready to pick: 
September
Use fruit: 
October - December
Pollination: 
Group B (self-sterile)
Botanic Name: 
Malus domestica 'Merlin's Apple'
Synonyms: 
Bardsey Island Apple
Originated: 
Bardsey Island,Wales (1900)
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Description

Propagated from an apple tree growing on Bardsey Island, off the coast of North Wales. The tree stands in the garden of a house built by Lord Newborough in the 1870s and is though to be chance seedling from some time after that date. The medium-sized ribbed fruit are creamy-yellow with some pink stripes and flushing, with a distinct lemon scent. The fruit stores well until Christmas and also cooks to lovely straw-coloured fluff. Scab and canker-resistant.

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