The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Italy

Cola Gelata

The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:

Originated in the early 1900s in the Giarrita-Petralia region of Italy. Fruits have slightly dry flesh with a sweet subacid flavour.

Family tree

Parents, grandparents and great-grandparents, as the entries in the atlas record them.

  • Cola Gelata Italy, early 1900s
    • Seed parent Cola Gelata Italy, early 1900s
    • Pollen parent Cola Italy, early 1900s

Sources

  1. Cola Gelata (accession 1958 - 128), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the parentage; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (early october); the other names.