Ruby Rome Beauty
syn. Black Rome Beauty, Cherry Red Rome Beauty, Miller Ruby Rome, Ruby Red Rome, Ruby Rome
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
A more highly coloured clone of Rome Beauty. Discovered in about 1912 by M.F. Hubbs, in Hall Orchard, Milton-Freewater, Oregon, USA. Introduced in 1928. Fruits have creamy white, rather coarse-textured, juicy flesh with little flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 12th May (10%) · 18th May (full) · 25th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium
- Shape
- Globose
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish green
- Over colour amount
- medium-high
- Over colour pattern
- mottled/solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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