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Grimes Golden

Grimes Golden

Apple cultivar

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Grimes Golden

is a cultivar of apple originated in Wellsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1832 on the farm of Thomas Grimes. Flesh yellow, firm, fine-grained, juicy, aromatic, spicy, subacid.[1] Susceptible to bitter pit.[2] It could be a parent of the famous Golden Delicious apple,[3] and is known to be the maternal parent of 'Yellospur', and the pollen parent of 'Sinta'.[4]

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References

  1. [1]
    John Warder, American Pomology
  2. [2]
    Korban, Genetic and Nutritional status in Bitter Pit-resistant and - susceptible Apple seedlings. J.Am. Soc. Hort. Sci. 109(3) 428-432, 1984.
  3. [3]
    "Malus 'Grimes Golden'". Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
  4. [4]
    "Grimes Golden", National Fruit Collection, University of Reading and Brogdale Collections, retrieved 27 October 2015
  5. [5]
    Stark Nurserie's, catalog, 1917


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