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Project aiming at recovering, preserving, and enhancing the autochthonous genetic agricultural resources in Majella National Park

Majella National Park, in collaboration with the Regional Agency for the Agriculture Development Services (A.R.S.S.A.) promotes the project "preservation and enhancement of the autochthonous genetic agricultural resources of the local territory". The project, co-financed by the Nature Preservation Department of the Italian Ministry of the Environment, aims at recovering, preserving, and enhancing the agricultural varieties traditionally cultivated in Abruzzi

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Pomo di Renzo Peach

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"De vièrne" Pear

The fruits have a small-medium size, rhomboid-shaped, and a green color becoming red when they are ripe; the pulp is dry and compact. It is a pear ripening late in the autumn and in winter, which preserves well over the time. It is very appreciated for...

Category: Fruit

Gelata Apple

Gelata apple has been named after its characteristic vitreous pulp, deriving from the gelatinization (from here the name Gelata) of some cells that make it harder and less juicy. The pulp is white, slightly acidulous, very aromatic, juicy, and sweet....

Category: Fruit

Limoncella Apple, Meloncella, Lemon Apple

The fruits have a medium or medium-small size and a conic-spherical or cylindric-conic and often asymmetric shape. The fruits have an intense yellow color with small rust colored spots, a white and slightly acidulous pulp: from here the name "limoncella",...

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Mangione Apple

Apple with small-medium size fruits and a generally ellipsoidal shape found in the area of Pizzoferrato. The color is intense yellow, but when the apple is completely ripe it is covered with vertical red streaks. It has a crunchy pulp, with an average...

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Paradiso Apple

The fruits are characterized by an irregular shape (they are asymmetric), mainly spherical-flat. They are also characterized by a slight oiliness of the peel. Widespread in a large territory, it was already mentioned by Prosperi (1877-1885) for the area...

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Piana Apple, Casolana Apple, or Altino Apple

They are tough trees with very scented and medium-size fruits with the characteristic flat-rounded shape, a white and slightly acidulous pulp, aromatic and crunchy. In the past it was a very well-known and widespread variety, already mentioned by the...

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Pomo di Renzo Peach

Peach variety with a tomentose peel and a basic yellow color partly covered by evident reddening. Light yellow pulp with a medium compactness. Local variety characterized by a late ripening (end September, beginning of October), already mentioned by Finamore...

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St. John Pear

Summer pear with small-size and pear-shaped fruits; its peel has a basic yellow color, with localized reddening and grey small spots. The soft pulp has a pleasant taste only when it is complete ripe, when it is very sweet. It ripens at the end of June,...

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Testa Rosce Peach

Peach variety characterized by a late ripening (October), with small-medium size fruits and a tomentose peel which, after the onset of ripening, becomes grayish while, when the fruit is ripe, the basic yellow color is almost completely covered with several...

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Thirty-three Ounce Pear

A variety ripening in winter, with rather big and egg-shaped fruits, with a green color almost entirely covered by a light brown. The pulp, of medium compactness, has a pleasant taste. This pear was already mentioned in the 18th century by Torcia after...

Category: Fruit

Tinella Apple

Autumn variety very widespread locally in the past, appreciated for its good taste and long preservation. Compact and crunchy white pulp with a slightly acidulous taste.

Category: Fruit