Applevariety

Maggie Grieve

A dessert apple with pinkish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart, crisp and soft. Picked in late September.

Origin · Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol

Taste & texture

Sweetness
sweet
Acidity
subacid
Firmness
soft
Bite
crisp
Used for
Dessert apple

How to spot it

Skin
Surface colour RedBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour coverage high-very high
Flesh
Pinkish
Shape
Broad globose conical
Size
medium
Appearance
Surface ridges absent

Origin & family

Where Maggie Grieve began

Recorded origin

Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol

Field notes

Original source notes
Fruit & tree
size
medium
type
Dessert
shape
Broad globose conical
crunch
crisp
ribbing
absent
firmness
soft
over colour
Red
flesh colour
Pinkish
ground colour
Whitish yellow
over colour amount
high-very high
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