Applevariety
American Grindling
A cooking apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; tart and soft. Picked in late August.
Origin · U.S.A.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Culinary apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour sometimes flushed brownish redBackground colour yellowish green
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 75-90 mmFruit height 53-73 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, slightly on bodyRusset pattern thick scaly russet in cavity
Origin & family
Where American Grindling began
Recorded origin
U.S.A.
United States
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- tree
- tip bearer
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, slightly on body
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 75-90 mm
- over colour
- sometimes flushed brownish red
- russet type
- thick scaly russet in cavity
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 53-73 mm
- flesh texture
- soft, rather coarse
- ground colour
- yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.