The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Italy

Mela Carla

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

Said to have originated from Finale Ligure, Trentino or Calabria, Italy. First described in 1817 but thought to be considerably older. Fruits have fine, loose textured, melting, white flesh with a sweet and perfumed flavour.

Sources

  1. Mela Carla (accession 1947 - 004), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; 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.
  2. Using whole-genome SNP data to reconstruct a large multi-generation pedigree in apple germplasm, Hélène Muranty and others, BMC Plant Biology 20:2, 2020. Supports: its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
  • Photograph of Abbondanza apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, on the tree.

    Abbondanza

    Italy, 1896

  • Photograph of Annurca apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Annurca

    Campania's "queen of apples", picked before it is fully red and then coloured on beds laid out on the ground

    Italy, by 1876

  • Photograph of Campanino apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Campanino

    Italy, by 1950

  • Photograph of Caroli d'Italie apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Caroli d'Italie

    Italy, by 1876

  • Photograph of Cavallotta apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Cavallotta

    Italy, by 1958

  • Photograph of Ciodo apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Ciodo

    Italy, by 1958

  • Civni

    Bred near Ferrara from a 1988 cross of Gala and Elstar; a late-summer apple run by its breeder, CIV, as a club variety

    Italy, 1988

  • Photograph of Cola apples at the National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, one cut across.

    Cola

    Italy, early 1900s

All 31 varieties from Italy