The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Italy

Decio

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:

This variety is said to date from the time of Attila (c. 450 AD) and to have been brought to England by Roman general Ezio from Latium, Italy. Fruits have firm, fine flesh with a slightly sweet, slightly subacid flavour.

Sources

  1. Decio (accession 1983 - 032), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (late october); the other names.
  2. Using whole-genome SNP data to reconstruct a large multi-generation pedigree in apple germplasm, Hélène Muranty and others, BMC Plant Biology 20:2, 2020. Supports: its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
  • Photograph of Abbondanza apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Abbondanza

    Italy, 1896

  • Photograph of Annurca apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Annurca

    Campania's "queen of apples", picked before it is fully red and then coloured on beds laid out on the ground

    Italy, by 1876

  • Photograph of Campanino apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Campanino

    Italy, by 1950

  • Photograph of Caroli d'Italie apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Caroli d'Italie

    Italy, by 1876

  • Photograph of Cavallotta apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Cavallotta

    Italy, by 1958

  • Photograph of Ciodo apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Ciodo

    Italy, by 1958

  • Civni

    Bred near Ferrara from a 1988 cross of Gala and Elstar; a late-summer apple run by its breeder, CIV, as a club variety

    Italy, 1988

  • Photograph of Cola apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Cola

    Italy, early 1900s

All 31 varieties from Italy