Gloria Mundi

Culinary apple

Malus domestica Borkh.

Though to have been raised either in Germany or USA. It was first recorded in the USA in 1804. Fruits have rather soft, coarse-textured, dry flesh with a subacid flavour.

Synonyms:

American Gloria Mundi, American Mammoth, Baltimore, Baltimore Pippin, Belle du Bois, Belle Dubois, Belle Josephine, Copp's Mammoth, Glazenwood, Glazenwood Gloria Mundi, Grosse de St. Clement, Grosse de St.-Clement, Herrenapfel, Imperatrice Josephine, Josephine, Josephine's Schoner Rambour, Kinderhook Pippin, Mammoth, Mammoth American, Mammoth Pippin, Melon, Mere de Menage, Messissippi, Mississippi, Monstreuse Pippin, Monstrous Pippin, Monstrueuse Pippin, Monstrueux Pippin, Mountain Flora, Moustrous Pippin, New York Gloria Mundi, New-York Gloria Mundi, Ox Apple, Pfundapfel, Pomme Josephine, Pomme Melon, Pound, Ruhm der Welt, Slava Mira, Slava Sveta, Solander Riesen, Spanisch Pippin, Spanish Pippin, Steifmutterchen, Titus Pippin, Vandyne Apple

Availability

Material available from the National Fruit Collection.

Material held in Tidnor Wood National Collection® of Malus (Cider making)

Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Tredomen)

Father to:

Sergeant Peggy

Shape

Flat globose ²

Size

large ²

Height

76.00mm ²

Width

89.00mm ²

Ribbing

medium ²

Ground Colour

Green yellow ²

Coarseness

coarse ²

Flesh Colour

Greenish ²

Accession No.

1922 - 014

  

Accession name

Gloria Mundi

Flowering time  ›››

6th May10% flowering
13th MayFull (80%) flowering
22nd May90% petal fall

Picking time

Early October ¹

References:

1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.

2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register