Applevariety
Cutler Grieve
A dessert apple with greenish flesh and yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape, introduced in about 1912; sweet and crisp. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · Edinburgh, Scotland
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Bite
- crisp
- Texture
- Flesh grain fine
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin greasiness MediumSurface colour RedBackground colour YellowSurface colour coverage high-very highSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Size
- largeWidth 76.00 mmHeight 64.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Cutler Grieve began
Recorded origin
Edinburgh, Scotland
United Kingdom
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Truncate conical
- width
- 76.00 mm
- crunch
- crisp
- height
- 64.00 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- coarseness
- fine
- greasiness
- Medium
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Yellow
- over colour amount
- high-very high
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.