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Cola
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
An Italian variety known since the early 1900s. Fruits have firm, coarse flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Father to:
- Cola Gelata
Accession No.
1958 - 129
- Accession name
- Cola
- Flowering time ›››
- 11th May10% flowering
15th MayFull (80%) flowering
24th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late October 1
- Size
- small-medium 1
- Shape
- Oblong 1
- Ribbing
- strong 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- n/a 1
- Over Colour Amount
- absent 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- n/a 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019