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Caravel
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
Raised at the Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada and introduced in 1964. A biennial cropper. Fruits have firm, white flesh with a rather insipid flavour.
- Synonyms:
- Portia
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Melba x Crimson Beauty (Canada)
- Shape
- Flat globose 2
- Size
- medium 2
- Height
- 46.50mm 2
- Width
- 55.50mm 2
- Ribbing
- medium 2
- Ground Colour
- Green 2
- Over Colour
- Red 2
- Over Colour (Amount)
- high 2
- Over Colour (Pattern)
- striped 2
- Russet
- very low 2
- Flesh Colour
- White 2
Accession No.
1965 - 008
- Accession name
- Caravel
- Flowering time ›››
- 3rd May10% flowering
7th MayFull (80%) flowering
15th May90% petal fall - Picking time
- Mid August 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 NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.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