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Maggie Grieve

Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession

Raised at Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol. It was received by the National Fruit Trials in 1928. Fruits have soft but somewhat crisp, pinkish flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Picking time
Late September
Flowering
11th May (10%) · 16th May (full) · 22nd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
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

Source · National Fruit Collection

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