Rosa del Caldaro
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Thought to have originated in the district of Caldaro, Venezia Tridentina, Italy. Described in 1889. Fruits have soft, fine, white flesh with a sweet subacid and slightly perfumed flavour.
- Synonyms:
- ?Rosa Mantovana, Apfel von Mantua, Bohmer, Bohmer von Kaltern, Kalterer, Kalterer Boehmer, Kalterer Bohmer, Kaltererbemer, Mantovano, Mantuaner, Mantuanskoe, Nariadnoe, Pomme de Mantoue, Rosa di Caldaro, Rosa gentile, Zimnee raspisnoe, Zimnee zolotoe semechko, Zimnee zolotoe semiaciko
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
Accession No.
1951 - 184
- Accession name
- Rosa del Caldaro
- Flowering time ›››
- 2nd May10% flowering
7th MayFull (80%) flowering 15th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Early October 1
- Size
- medium 1
- Shape
- Broad globose conical 1
- Height
- 52.46 mm 1
- Width
- 62.92 mm 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- weak 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Red 1
- Over Colour Amount
- medium 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- solid flush 1
- Russet
- very low 1
- Greasiness
- Medium 1
- Coarseness
- fine 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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
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