Rosa del Caldaro
syn. ?Rosa Mantovana, Apfel von Mantua, Bohmer, Bohmer von Kaltern, Kalterer, Kalterer Boehmer, Kalterer Bohmer, Kaltererbemer, Mantovano, Mantuaner, Mantuanskoe, Nariadnoe, Pomme de Mantoue, Rosa di Caldaro, Rosa gentile, Zimnee raspisnoe, Zimnee zolotoe semechko, Zimnee zolotoe semiaciko
Dessert · Apple · Malus domestica Borkh. · 1 accession
Thought to have originated in the district of Caldaro, Venezia Tridentina, Italy. Described in 1889. Fruits have soft, fine, white flesh with a sweet subacid and slightly perfumed flavour.
Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Picking time
- Early October
National Apple Register (1971)
- Tree
- upright
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid, slightly perfumed
- Ribbing
- ribbed
- Fruit size
- medium
- Fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Over colour
- nearly covered with carmine
- Flesh colour
- white
- Flesh texture
- fine, soft
- Ground colour
- yellow tinged green
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Crown
- weak
- Shape
- Broad globose conical
- Width
- 62.92 mm
- Height
- 52.46 mm
- Russet
- very low
- Ribbing
- weak-medium
- Firmness
- soft
- Juiciness
- dry-medium
- Coarseness
- fine
- Greasiness
- Medium
- Over colour
- Red
- Flesh colour
- White
- Ground colour
- Whitish yellow
- Over colour amount
- medium
- Over colour pattern
- solid flush
Source · National Fruit Collection
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