King Cole
syn. Cole, R. G. Cole's Champion
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Raised by R.G. Cole at Lang Lang, Victoria, Australia. It was first exhibited in 1912. Fruits have firm, fine, greenish white flesh with a subacid flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Mid October
- Flowering
- 4th May (10%) · 9th May (full) · 16th May (petal fall)
National Apple Register (1971)
- Flavour
- slightly subacid
- Ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- tall, rectangular, convex
- Fruit width
- 54-63 mm
- Over colour
- flushed and striped bright red
- Russet type
- occasional patches of russet
- Flesh colour
- greenish white
- Fruit height
- 53-61 mm
- Flesh texture
- coarse, hard
- Ground colour
- greenish yellow
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small-medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak-medium
- Shape
- Globose conical
- Russet
- low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- firm-very firm
- Coarseness
- coarse
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- Cream
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- striped/mottled
Source · National Fruit Collection
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