Applevariety
Kalco
Also known as Carola
Carola
A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and yellow skin, truncate-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and aromatic. Picked in mid-September.
Origin · former Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut, Muncheberg, Germany
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Scent
- aromatic
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid, aromatic
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and striped red, sometimes almost entirelyBackground colour yellow
- Shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges prominent ribs at eye, ribbed on body
Origin & family
Where Kalco began
Recorded origin
former Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut, Muncheberg
Germany
Kalco’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Kalco
former Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut, Muncheberg, Germany
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Cox's Orange Pippin → KalcoParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- sweet, subacid, aromatic
- ribbing
- prominent ribs at eye, ribbed on body
- synonyms
- Carola
- parentage
- Cox's Orange Pippin x Unknown
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, truncate-conic, convex
- over colour
- flushed and striped red, sometimes almost entirely
- ground colour
- yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.