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. Pollination partners

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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