Kalco
syn. Carola
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised at the former Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut, Muncheberg, Germany. It was received by the National Fruit Trials in 1967. Fruits have a sweet, subacid, aromatic flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 5th May (10%) · 10th May (full) · 18th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid, aromatic
- Ribbing
- prominent ribs at eye, ribbed on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Over colour
- flushed and striped red, sometimes almost entirely
- Ground colour
- yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- medium-strong
- Shape
- Truncate conical
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- strong
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Orange
- Flesh colour
- Yellowish
- Ground colour
- Yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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