Red Rome
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
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.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 13th May (10%) · 19th May (full) · 26th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Globose
- Width
- 75.57 mm
- Height
- 65.20 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Juiciness
- dry-medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
- Over colour amount
- high
- Over colour pattern
- solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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