Caravel
syn. Portia
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
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.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid August
- Flowering
- 3rd May (10%) · 7th May (full) · 15th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Width
- 55.50 mm
- Height
- 46.50 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- medium
- Firmness
- firm
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Green
- Over colour amount
- high
- Over colour pattern
- striped
Source · National Fruit Collection
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