Fruit Tree Database

Fruit Type

Apple

Variety/Cultivar

Rome Beauty

Fruit Description

Fruit is medium-large, flushed red, and striped. Flavour is subacid, flesh tends to be soft.

Common Uses

Dual purpose cooking and eating. Highly regarded as a baked apple, and makes excellent flavoured juice.

Origin

A heritage apple from the USA, 1848.

Pollination

Diploid, quite self-fertile, however may benefit from being planted with another late flowering variety, e.g. Brown Snout, Court Pendu Plat, Northern Spy, Ohio Red Rome.

Chill Hours

Medium chill, 700 hours

Blossom Time

Flowers late.

Harvest Time

Production Notes

Tip bearing (some sources say spur bearing so may be both). Will grow in USDA zones 4 to 8. Tree is moderately vigorous, spreading and has a willowy habit.

Disease Susceptibility

Moderately susceptible to black spot (apple scab), powdery mildew, and cedar apple rust

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