Renetta Grigia di Torriana
syn. Grigia di Torriana
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A chance seedling which originated in Torriana di Barge, Cuneo, West Piedmont, Italy. First propagated by Recco Francesco and first distributed in about 1905. Fruits have tender, yellow flesh with a sweet and perfumed flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Late October
- Flowering
- 10th May (10%) · 15th May (full) · 22nd May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, perfumed
- Ribbing
- slightly ribbed
- Fruit size
- large
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 76 mm
- Russet type
- present
- Flesh colour
- yellow
- Fruit height
- 61 mm
- Flesh texture
- tender
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Globose
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- high-very high
- Ribbing
- weak
- Over colour
- n/a
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green yellow
- Over colour amount
- absent
- Over colour pattern
- n/a
Source · National Fruit Collection
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