Applevariety

Grimes Golden

Also known as Doree de Grimes +10

Doree de Grimes · Grime's Golden · Grime's Golden Pippin · Grimes · Grimes Goldapfel · Grimes Golden Pippin · Grimes Yellow Pippin · Grimes' · Grimes' Golden · Grimes' Golden Pippin · Zolotoe Graima

A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, round in shape; sweet, mildly tart, aromatic and juicy. Picked in mid-October.

Origin · Brook County, West Virginia, USA

Taste & texture

Sweetness
sweet
Acidity
subacid
Scent
aromatic
Firmness
soft
Bite
crisp
Juiciness
juicy
Flavour
subacid, rich, aromatic
Used for
Dessert apple

How to spot it

Skin
Background colour golden yellow
Flesh
cream, tinged orange
Shape
intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
Size
mediumFruit width 57-61 mmFruit height 51 mm
Appearance
Surface ridges slightly ribbedRusset pattern a little russet

Origin & family

Where Grimes Golden began

Recorded origin

Brook County, West Virginia, USA

United States

Grimes Golden’s family

135 varieties · 141 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children

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This variety

Grimes Golden

Brook County, West Virginia, USA, United States

Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0

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Field notes

Original source notes
Fruit & tree
flavour
subacid, rich, aromatic
ribbing
slightly ribbed
synonyms
Doree de Grimes, Grime's Golden, Grime's Golden Pippin, Grimes, Grimes Goldapfel, Grimes Golden Pippin, Grimes Yellow Pippin, Grimes', Grimes' Golden, Grimes' Golden Pippin, Zolotoe Graima
father to
Sinta
mother to
Yellospur
fruit size
medium
fruit shape
intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
fruit width
57-61 mm
russet type
a little russet
flesh colour
cream, tinged orange
fruit height
51 mm
flesh texture
soft, coarse
ground colour
golden yellow
Sources 3

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