Applevariety
Carrara Brusca
Also known as Callera Brusca
Callera Brusca
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, flat in shape; mildly tart, crisp and firm. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Bite
- crisp
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour occational slight pink flushSkin texture scarf skin base to sides, smooth, dry, rather toughBackground colour pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish cream
- Shape
- flat, conic to rectangular, convex
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 63-72 mmFruit height 47-57 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, sometimes on bodyRusset pattern russet dots and russet at base
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- tree
- upright
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, sometimes on body
- synonyms
- Callera Brusca
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- flat, conic to rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 63-72 mm
- over colour
- occational slight pink flush
- russet type
- russet dots and russet at base
- flesh colour
- greenish cream
- fruit height
- 47-57 mm
- skin texture
- scarf skin base to sides, smooth, dry, rather tough
- flesh texture
- firm, crisp, fine
- ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.