Applevariety
James Grieve
Also known as Dzems Griw +2
Dzems Griw · Grieve · Jems Griv
A cooking and dessert apple with cream flesh and yellow skin, round-conical in shape, first recorded in 1893; sweet, mildly tart, juicy and soft. Picked in early September.
Origin · Edinburgh, Scotland
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed, striped and blotched redBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- cream, tinged yellow
- Shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 70 mmFruit height 62 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at apexRusset pattern occasional russet
Origin & family
Where James Grieve began
Recorded origin
Edinburgh, Scotland
United Kingdom
James Grieve’s family
21 varieties · 20 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
James Grieve
Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- sports
- Erich Neumanns Roter James Grieve Redcoat Grieve James Grieve Lired
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at apex
- synonyms
- Dzems Griw, Grieve, Jems Griv
- father to
- Jamba 69 Ruzena Blahova Eva Lotta
- mother to
- Saint Ailred Balder Lord Lambourne Greensleeves Katja Elton Beauty
- parentage
- Pott's Seedling or Cox's Orange Pippin x Unknown
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- intermediate, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 70 mm
- over colour
- flushed, striped and blotched red
- russet type
- occasional russet
- flesh colour
- cream, tinged yellow
- fruit height
- 62 mm
- flesh texture
- soft, loose,
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.