Rome Beauty
Also known as ?Imperatore +17
?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
A cooking and dessert apple with greenish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, oblong in shape; juicy and soft. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Lawrence County, Ohio, USA
Taste & texture
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- juicy
- Texture
- Flesh grain coarse
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour OrangeBackground colour Whitish yellowSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- Greenish
- Shape
- Oblong
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 77.50 mmHeight 61.50 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges weak
Origin & family
Where Rome Beauty began
Recorded origin
Lawrence County, Ohio, USA
United States
Rome Beauty’s family
10 varieties · 9 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
Rome Beauty
Lawrence County, Ohio, USA, United States
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Culinary / Dessert
- shape
- Oblong
- width
- 77.50 mm
- height
- 61.50 mm
- sports
- Barkley Red Rome Double Red Rome Beauty Glengyle Red Red Rome Ruby Rome Beauty
- ribbing
- weak
- firmness
- soft
- synonyms
- ?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
- father to
- Monroe
- coarseness
- coarse
- over colour
- Orange
- flesh colour
- Greenish
- ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.