In 2023, a new type of apple made its commercial debut at a trade show in Berlin. The Tutti is crisp, juicy and has that perfect blush tinge — a lovely cultivar that took decades to produce. But it has a bigger claim to fame: It is designed to thrive at temperatures as high as 40° Celsius (104° Fahrenheit).
The apple is a product of the Hot Climate Partnership, a collaboration between researchers and industry groups in Spain and New Zealand to create crops capable of thriving in ever-warmer climates. The group teamed up in 2002 in the midst of increasingly hot summers in the Catalan region of Spain
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