Barkley Red Rome
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A more highly coloured clone of Rome Beauty which was discovered in 1944 by G.L. Barkley, Manson, Washington, U.S.A. Introduced in 1953. Fruits are rather coarse-textured, juicy but with little flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 17th May (10%) · 21st May (full) · 27th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small-medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Russet
- very low
- Over colour
- Red
- Over colour amount
- high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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