Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Maggie Grieve
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
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.
Sources
- Maggie Grieve (accession 1928 - 002), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (late september).
- Using whole-genome SNP data to reconstruct a large multi-generation pedigree in apple germplasm, Hélène Muranty and others, BMC Plant Biology 20:2, 2020. Supports: its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
