Mela Carla

A medium-sized Italian dessert apple with pale yellow-green skin flushed dark crimson in the sun. The flesh is white with a delicate, juicy, tender texture, offering a sweet vinous flavor with a rose-like perfume. Though indigenous to warmer climates, it can be successfully cultivated in the UK with wall protection, producing flesh as fine as the best pears when in perfection.

Flavor & Texture

Best Uses

Origin & History

Status

heritage

Known by

≥ 1817

References

UK National Fruit Collection

3898

Wikidata

Q41779324

Cited authority (Hogg 1851)

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