Applevariety
Carrata
Also known as Callera Dolce
Callera Dolce
A dessert apple with cream flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- slightly subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Skin texture thin, toughBackground colour pale yellowish green
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 70-79 mmFruit height 56-62 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges slightly ribbed at eyeRusset pattern lightly dotted, russet at base
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly subacid
- ribbing
- slightly ribbed at eye
- synonyms
- Callera Dolce
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 70-79 mm
- russet type
- lightly dotted, russet at base
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 56-62 mm
- skin texture
- thin, tough
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- pale yellowish green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.