The World of Apples

Apple varieties, Italy

Rosa del Caldaro

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

Thought to have originated in the district of Caldaro, Venezia Tridentina, Italy. Described in 1889. Fruits have soft, fine, white flesh with a sweet subacid and slightly perfumed flavour.

Rosa del Caldaro
Where Rosa del Caldaro came from.

Sources

  1. Rosa del Caldaro (accession 1951 - 184), 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).