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Maggie Grieve
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised at Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol. It was received by the National Fruit Trials in 1928. Fruits have soft but somewhat crisp, pinkish flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Ribbing
- absent 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- high-very high 2
- Crunch
- crisp 2
- Flesh Colour
- Pinkish 2
Accession No.
1928 - 002
- Accession name
- Maggie Grieve
- Flowering time ›››
- 11th May10% flowering
16th MayFull (80%) flowering
22nd May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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