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Abbondanza
type: Culinary, Dessert, Juice, Pie, Sauce
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.
mutations: RF: Abbondanza Rossa
cold storage: Keeps up to five months
vulnerabilities: Susceptible to fireblight.
harvest: In the middle of the fifth period.
pollination group: D
pollination peak: 13
ploidism: Diploid. Self fertile but produces the best harvests in proximity to a source of compatible pollen.
cold storage weeks: 20
brix: 11.9
acidity: 8.9
harvest period: 5
hardiness: 4
sg: 1.0479
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