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Cola Gelata
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Originated in the early 1900s in the Giarrita-Petralia region of Italy. Fruits have slightly dry flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Gelata Cola
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Cola Gelata x Cola
- Mother to:
- Cola Gelata
Accession No.
1958 - 128
- Accession name
- Cola Gelata
- Flowering time ›››
- 7th May10% flowering
12th MayFull (80%) flowering
20th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Conical 1
- Height
- 69.49 mm 1
- Width
- 60.48 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- n/a 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- n/a 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Crunch
- crisp 1
- Juiciness
- dry-medium 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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