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Cutler Grieve
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised in Edinburgh, Scotland probably by James Grieve of Redbraes Nursery and introduced in about 1912 by David Storrie. Fruits have crisp, fine flesh with a sweet flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Truncate conical 2
- Size
- large 2
- Height
- 64.00mm 2
- Width
- 76.00mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- high-very high 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Greasiness
- Medium 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Coarseness
- fine 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1924 - 021
- Accession name
- Cutler Grieve
- Flowering time ›››
- 7th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering
18th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid September 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019