Grenadier
Culinary · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 2 accessions
First recorded in 1862 and introduced to commerce in about 1875. It received a First Class Certificate from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1883. The most widely grown early commercial cooking apple in the UK. Fruits have firm, fine-textured, juicy fle
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Accession 1974-347 · Grenadier (LA 68A)
- Picking time
- Mid August
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 11th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 66.00 mm
- Height
- 57.00 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium-strong
- Firmness
- medium-firm
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Strong
- Over colour
- Brown
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- very low
Accession 1979-020 · Grenadier
- Picking time
- mid august
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 17th May (petal fall)
No descriptor data recorded for this accession.
Source · National Fruit Collection
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