Applevariety
Cola Gelata
Also known as Gelata Cola
Gelata Cola
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and dry. Picked in early October.
Origin · Giarrita-Petralia region of Italy
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Texture
- slightly dry
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Background colour golden yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- tall conic, convex to straight, occasionally concave
- Size
- mediumFruit width 58 mmFruit height 63 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges not, or slightly ribbed at eyeRusset pattern russet dots
Origin & family
Where Cola Gelata began
Recorded origin
Giarrita-Petralia region of Italy
Italy
Cola Gelata’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Cola Gelata
Giarrita-Petralia region of 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
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- not, or slightly ribbed at eye
- synonyms
- Gelata Cola
- mother to
- Cola Gelata
- parentage
- Cola Gelata x Cola
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall conic, convex to straight, occasionally concave
- fruit width
- 58 mm
- russet type
- russet dots
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 63 mm
- flesh texture
- slightly dry
- ground colour
- golden yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.