Rosso del Povero
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Received 1958. From Turin, Italy.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 8th May (10%) · 13th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, subacid
- Ribbing
- strongly ribbed at eye, ribbed on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- intermediate to sometimes slightly flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Fruit width
- 68 mm
- Over colour
- flushed dull orange red, carmine stripes and stipples
- Russet type
- russet at base, a few small patches
- Flesh colour
- creamy white
- Fruit height
- 59 mm
- Skin texture
- tough
- Flesh texture
- firm
- Ground colour
- pale yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium-strong
- Shape
- Globose
- Crunch
- crisp
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Pink
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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