The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Italy

Skinlite

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

Raised in 1947 by R. Carlone, University of Turin, Italy. Introduced in 1973. Fruits are sweet, crisp and juicy.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

Golden Delicious Collins Skinlite
Where Skinlite came from. The lines lead to its parents: Golden Delicious (United States) and Collins (United States).

Sources

  1. Skinlite (accession 1976 - 066), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (late october).
  • 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