Applevariety
Cola
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, oblong in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in late October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour occasional slight pink flushSkin texture greasyBackground colour greenish yellow to yellow
- Flesh
- creamy white
- Shape
- tall, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- Size
- smallFruit width 46 mmFruit height 47 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eyeRusset pattern star shaped russet dots
Origin & family
Where Cola began
Recorded origin
Italy
Cola’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Cola
Italy
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Cola → Cola GelataParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye
- father to
- Cola Gelata
- fruit size
- small
- fruit shape
- tall, truncate-conic to rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 46 mm
- over colour
- occasional slight pink flush
- russet type
- star shaped russet dots
- flesh colour
- creamy white
- fruit height
- 47 mm
- skin texture
- greasy
- flesh texture
- firm, coarse
- ground colour
- greenish yellow to yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.