Cola Gelata
syn. Gelata Cola
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Originated in the early 1900s in the Giarrita-Petralia region of Italy. Fruits have slightly dry flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
- Flowering
- 7th May (10%) · 12th May (full) · 20th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Ribbing
- not, or slightly ribbed at eye
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- tall conic, convex to straight, occasionally concave
- Fruit width
- 58 mm
- Russet type
- russet dots
- Flesh colour
- white
- Fruit height
- 63 mm
- Flesh texture
- slightly dry
- Ground colour
- golden yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Conical
- Width
- 60.48 mm
- Crunch
- crisp
- Height
- 69.49 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- dry-medium
- Over colour
- n/a
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour pattern
- n/a
Source · National Fruit Collection
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