Opal Apples

!potatoes! · Wed Dec 21, 2011 7:34 am

rome? pretty sure there are beans and tomatoes referred to as 'roma', but I haven't heard of such an apple.

Intriguedbybonsai · Wed Dec 21, 2011 9:41 am

She probably meant "Rome". I don't care for them myself. They aren't crisp, or crunchy to my likings.

JONA878 · Wed Dec 21, 2011 9:59 am

They are classed as a culinary apple...Full name Rome Beauty, but there at least are eight 'sports ' of the variety.
Came from a rootstock shoot from the grafted tree of a Joel Gillet, Proctorville, Ohio around 1816.
Was tried over here in the Uk but our summer is not warm enough for it to get good colour or ripen well.
Listed as still grown widely in the States..but mainly for processing.
Also grown in Italy, australia and New Zealand.

DeborahL · Wed Dec 21, 2011 1:59 pm

Yes, it's ROME, not ROMA.
I love it !
How weird that it's been there all along. No more "habit shopping" !