Applevariety
Caravel
Also known as Portia
Portia
A dessert apple with white flesh and green skin, flat-round in shape, introduced in 1964; firm. Picked in mid-August.
Origin · Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Released 1964
Taste & texture
- Firmness
- firm
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour GreenSurface colour coverage highSurface colour pattern striped
- Flesh
- White
- Shape
- Flat globose
- Size
- mediumWidth 55.50 mmHeight 46.50 mm
Origin & family
Where Caravel began
Recorded origin
Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa
Canada
- Released
- 1964
Caravel’s family
6 varieties · 5 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Caravel
Central Experimental Farm, Ottawa, Canada
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Flat globose
- width
- 55.50 mm
- height
- 46.50 mm
- russet
- very low
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Portia
- parentage
- Melba x Crimson Beauty (Canada)
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- White
- ground colour
- Green
- over colour amount
- high
- over colour pattern
- striped
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.