Applevariety
Rosa del Caldaro
Also known as ?Rosa Mantovana +17
?Rosa Mantovana · Apfel von Mantua · Bohmer · Bohmer von Kaltern · Kalterer · Kalterer Boehmer · Kalterer Bohmer · Kaltererbemer · Mantovano · Mantuaner · Mantuanskoe · Nariadnoe · Pomme de Mantoue · Rosa di Caldaro · Rosa gentile · Zimnee raspisnoe · Zimnee zolotoe semechko · Zimnee zolotoe semiaciko
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, broad round-conical in shape; sweet, mildly tart and soft. Picked in early October.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- soft
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid, slightly perfumed
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour nearly covered with carmineBackground colour yellow tinged green
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- Size
- medium
- Appearance
- Surface ridges ribbed
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- tree
- upright
- flavour
- sweet, subacid, slightly perfumed
- ribbing
- ribbed
- synonyms
- ?Rosa Mantovana, Apfel von Mantua, Bohmer, Bohmer von Kaltern, Kalterer, Kalterer Boehmer, Kalterer Bohmer, Kaltererbemer, Mantovano, Mantuaner, Mantuanskoe, Nariadnoe, Pomme de Mantoue, Rosa di Caldaro, Rosa gentile, Zimnee raspisnoe, Zimnee zolotoe semechko, Zimnee zolotoe semiaciko
- fruit size
- medium
- fruit shape
- flat, rectangular, convex
- over colour
- nearly covered with carmine
- flesh colour
- white
- flesh texture
- fine, soft
- ground colour
- yellow tinged green
- flowering time
- early
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.