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Mela Carla
Malus domestica Borkh. Borkh.
Dessert
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
exquisitemelting
Best Uses
fresh_eating
1 historical watercolor from the USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection (1886–1942) included in the gallery above. Public domain.
Origin & History
- Status
- heritage
- Known by
- ≥ 1817
delicatewhitetenderperfumed
References
- UK National Fruit Collection
- 3898
- Wikidata
- Q41779324
- Cited authority (Hogg 1851)
- Gallesio