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Grimoldby Golden
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the East of England Apples & Orchards Project
Accession No.
1993 - 008
Received by the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale in 1993. It is thought to have been raised in the early 1900s by William Ingall, Grimoldby, Lincolnshire. Cooks well.
- Accession name
- Grimoldby Golden
- Flowering time ›››
- 27th April10% flowering
29th AprilFull (80%) flowering
8th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid August 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Flat globose 1
- Height
- 54.05 mm 1
- Width
- 62.97 mm 1
- Crown
- strong 1
- Ground Colour
- Green yellow 1
- Over Colour
- n/a 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Russet
- low 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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