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Red Rome
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Dual purpose. December-April. A more highly coloured clone of Rome Beauty. Originated in Barnley, Australia. Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1950. Fruits have creamy white, rather coarse textured, juicy flesh with little flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Sport of Rome Beauty
- Mother to:
- Roanoke
Accession No.
1950 - 124
- Accession name
- Red Rome (Australia)
- Flowering time ›››
- 13th May10% flowering
19th MayFull (80%) flowering
26th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- large 1
- Shape
- Globose 1
- Height
- 65.20 mm 1
- Width
- 75.57 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish green 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- high 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- solid flush 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Juiciness
- dry-medium 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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