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Double Red Rome Beauty
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Tetraploid. A sport of Rome Beauty being flatter in shape and being almost entirely flushed with bright crimson and darker streaks. It was discovered in about 1920 by Earle E. Cowin, Wapato, Washington, USA. Fruits have rather coarse-textured, juicy flesh but tends to lack flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Sport of Rome Beauty
Accession No.
1950 - 131
- Accession name
- Double Red Rome Beauty
- Flowering time ›››
- 12th May10% flowering
18th MayFull (80%) flowering
26th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Oblong 1
- Crown
- very weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- very high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/solid flush 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019