Grimes Golden
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by Thomas Grimes, Brook County, West Virginia, USA. It was first known in 1804. Fruits have crisp, juicy, fine-textured flesh with a sweet and moderate flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Doree de Grimes, Grime's Golden, Grime's Golden Pippin, Grimes, Grimes Goldapfel, Grimes Golden Pippin, Grimes Yellow Pippin, Grimes', Grimes' Golden, Grimes' Golden Pippin, Zolotoe Graima
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in Tidnor Wood National Collection® of Malus (Cider making)
- Mother to:
- Yellospur
- Father to:
- Sinta
Accession No.
1921 - 089
- Accession name
- Grimes Golden
- Flowering time ›››
- 6th May10% flowering
10th MayFull (80%) flowering 18th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Height
- 64.03 mm 1
- Width
- 71.91 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium-strong 1
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 1
- Over Colour
- n/a 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- n/a 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Flesh Colour
- Yellowish 1


- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
|