Rome Beauty
syn. ?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
Culinary / Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
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.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 13th May (10%) · 19th May (full) · 25th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Culinary / Dessert
- Shape
- Oblong
- Width
- 77.50 mm
- Height
- 61.50 mm
- Ribbing
- weak
- Firmness
- soft
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Greenish
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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