Cavallotta
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1958 - 029
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1958 from Italy. Fruits have firm flesh with an acid flavour.
- Accession name
- Cavallotta
- Flowering time ›››
- 7th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering 19th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- small-medium 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- strong 1
- Crown
- medium-strong 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low-medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Coarseness
- fine 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 1

- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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