Applevariety
Cavallotta
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- acid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- acid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour a little orange red stripingSkin texture greasyBackground colour yellow-green
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- flat, truncateconic, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 63 mmFruit height 54 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye, very slightly ribbed on bodyRusset pattern some russet
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- acid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye, very slightly ribbed on body
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, truncateconic, convex
- fruit width
- 63 mm
- over colour
- a little orange red striping
- russet type
- some russet
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 54 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, fine
- ground colour
- yellow-green
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.