Applevariety
Rosso del Povero
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round in shape; sweet, mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- slightly sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed dull orange red, carmine stripes and stipplesSkin texture toughBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- intermediate to sometimes slightly flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 68 mmFruit height 59 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges strongly ribbed at eye, ribbed on bodyRusset pattern russet at base, a few small patches
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- 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
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.