Double Red Rome Beauty
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
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.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 12th May (10%) · 18th May (full) · 26th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- very weak
- Shape
- Oblong
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- very high
- Over colour pattern
- striped/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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