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King Cole
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised by R.G. Cole at Lang Lang, Victoria, Australia. It was first exhibited in 1912. Fruits have firm, fine, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Cole, R. G. Cole's Champion
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Jonathan x Dutch Mignonne
Accession No.
1950 - 122
- Accession name
- King Cole
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering
16th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid October 1
- Size
- small-medium 1
- Shape
- Globose conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak-medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- striped/mottled 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Coarseness
- coarse 1
- Flesh Colour
- Cream 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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