Applevariety
Kolacara
Also known as Kolatchara +1
Kolatchara · Koltchara
A cooking and dessert apple with white flesh and green-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; mildly tart and firm. Picked in mid-October.
Taste & texture
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- firmtender
- Flavour
- subacid
- Used for
- Culinary / Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed and striped redSkin texture waxy, bloomBackground colour pale greenish yellow
- Flesh
- white, veined green
- Shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- Size
- largeFruit width 85-89 mmFruit height 60-64 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges prominent ribs at eye and on body
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- flavour
- subacid
- ribbing
- prominent ribs at eye and on body
- synonyms
- Kolatchara, Koltchara
- fruit size
- large
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular to truncate-conic, convex
- fruit width
- 85-89 mm
- over colour
- flushed and striped red
- flesh colour
- white, veined green
- fruit height
- 60-64 mm
- skin texture
- waxy, bloom
- flesh texture
- firm, coarse, tender
- ground colour
- pale greenish yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.