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Welcome to the world's most extensive apples (pommes) database.
Information on over 7,000 apples is available here, all carefully researched and provided in a way that is easy to navigate.
Synonyms: Belfort
Summary: Originating in Italy, this large, fresh-eating apple offers a refreshing sweet-tart flavour.
Identification: Medium size, tending to small. Round to round-conic in shape, sometimes lopsided. The base colour is yellow over which is a deep red wash on the sun-exposed face. Bright red, broken stripes radiate off the stem cavity's shoulder. Sparsely marked with light coloured lenticels. The calyx is small and tightly closed, set in a funnel shaped basin. The stem is short and medium stout, set in a deep and narrow cavity. The skin is somewhat thick and turns waxy when ripe.
Characteristics: The flesh is cream-coloured, firm and fine-grained. Vinous with a distinct raspberry flavour.
Uses: Dessert, also for cooking.
Origins: A wild seedling found growing near San Pietro Capofiume in Bologna (Italy), in 1896. It was widely grown as a commercial variety throughout the Bologna region through the 1900s, both for export and and market sales, but went into a serious decline in the 1970s. Fortunately, it was a popular apple variety appreciated in much of Continental Europe providing a strong base for its restoration. The Abbondanza is now available through nurseries in most apple growing regions, though grown largely by U-pick operations, farm-gate sales and by amateur growers.
Cultivation: Vigorous. Precocious. Requires rich, moist and well drained soil, does not react well to drought conditions.
Ploidism: Diploid. Self fertile but produces the best harvests in proximity to a source of compatible pollen.
Mutations: Abbondanza Rossa
Cold storage: Keeps up to five months
Vulnerabilities: Susceptible to fireblight.
Harvest: In the middle of the fifth period.
Brix: 11.9
Specific gravity: 1.048
Acidity: 8.9
Harvest period: 5
Type(s): Culinary, Dessert, Juice, Pie, Sauce
Hardiness Zone min: 3
Hardiness Zone max: 9
Pollination group: D
Pollination day: 13
ARS GRIN entry: Accession ID