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Melba
A pink flushed earrly dessert apple with a refreshing summer fruit flavour.
Origin: Canada, 1898
Pollination: Melba is self-sterile and would require a pollinator to produce a crop.Find pollination partners >
British-grown 
All our bare-root trees are personally hand-grafted by our Nursery Manager and grown on at our nursery in Kent. We have Defra and Plant Healthy certification.
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Characteristics of Melba apple trees
| Use | Dessert |
| Colour | Flushed |
| Flavour | Sweet |
| Fruit size | Medium |
| Picking time | Mid/Late Aug |
| Season of use | Aug-Sep |
| Tree vigour | Moderate |
| Tree habit | Upright-spreading |
| Fruit-bearing | Spur-bearer |
| Cropping | Good |
| Disease resistance | Canker - Susceptible Scab - Resistant |
| Suitable for | Late Frost |
| Pollination date | 8 |
| Pollination group | C |
| Self-fertility | Self-sterile |
| Pollinators | Pollination partners |
| Parentage | McIntosh Red |
| Progeny | Caravel |
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