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Rome Beauty
Culinary / Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated with H.N. Gillett in Lawrence County, Ohio, USA. Brought to notice in 1848. Fruits have creamy white, rather coarse-textured, juicy flesh with very little flavour. Fruits do not mature well in the UK.
- Synonyms:
- ?Imperatore, ?Morella, Beaute de Rome, Belle de Rome, Faust's Rome Beauty, Frumusetea Romei, Gillet's Seedling, Gillett's Seedling, Morgenduit, Mussolinieapfel, Pomme de Romagne, Rimskaia Krasavita, Rimskaya Krasavitsa, Rimske Krasne, Roma szepe, Roman Beauty, Rome, Rome's Beauty
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Father to:
- Monroe
- Sports:
- Barkley Red Rome
- Double Red Rome Beauty
- Glengyle Red
- Red Rome
- Ruby Rome Beauty
- Shape
- Oblong 2
- Size
- medium-large 2
- Height
- 61.50mm 2
- Width
- 77.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- weak 2
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 2
- Over Colour
- Orange 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Coarseness
- coarse 2
- Flesh Colour
- Greenish 2
Accession No.
1943 - 007
- Accession name
- Rome Beauty
- Flowering time ›››
- 13th May10% flowering
19th MayFull (80%) flowering
25th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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