Grimes Golden
syn. 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
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by Thomas Grimes, Brook County, West Virginia, USA. It was first known in 1804. Fruits have crisp, juicy, fine-textured flesh with a sweet and moderate flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 6th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- subacid, rich, aromatic
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed
- 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
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium-strong
- Shape
- Globose
- Width
- 71.91 mm
- Height
- 64.03 mm
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- n/a
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- n/a
Source · National Fruit Collection
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