American Grindling
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated from U.S.A. Recorded in 1872. Fruits have soft, coarse, acid flesh.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late August
- Flowering
- 10th May (10%) · 15th May (full) · 22nd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- 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
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Culinary
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 90.62 mm
- Height
- 69.02 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- dry
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Strong
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
- Over colour pattern
- washed out
Source · National Fruit Collection
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