Applevariety
King Cole
Also known as Cole +1
Cole · R. G. Cole's Champion
A dessert apple with cream flesh and whitish-yellow skin, round-conical in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Lang Lang, Victoria, Australia
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- slightly subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and striped bright redBackground colour greenish yellow
- Flesh
- greenish white
- Shape
- tall, rectangular, convex
- Size
- mediumFruit width 54-63 mmFruit height 53-61 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed at eye and on bodyRusset pattern occasional patches of russet
Origin & family
Where King Cole began
Recorded origin
Lang Lang, Victoria
Australia
King Cole’s family
4 varieties · 3 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
King Cole
Lang Lang, Victoria, Australia
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- slightly subacid
- ribbing
- ribbed at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Cole, R. G. Cole's Champion
- parentage
- Jonathan x Dutch Mignonne
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- tall, rectangular, convex
- fruit width
- 54-63 mm
- over colour
- flushed and striped bright red
- russet type
- occasional patches of russet
- flesh colour
- greenish white
- fruit height
- 53-61 mm
- flesh texture
- coarse, hard
- ground colour
- greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.