Gala
Variety of Apple · Malus domestica
The world's best-selling dessert apple: small, crisp, sweet and red-striped.
Also known as: Royal Gala Gruppe
🇳🇿 New Zealand 1934
Taste & characteristics
Taste
mildcrispjuicysweetaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Kidd's Orange Red x Golden Delicious
- Breeder
- J. H. Kidd
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 150 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Medium-small, firm fruit with yellow ground and bright orange-red stripes; sweet, juicy, mildly aromatic flesh.
Growth
Medium vigour, well branched, regular and early bearing.
Yield
High and reliable; tends to biennial bearing if overcropped, so thin.
Notes
Countless redder sports (Royal Gala, Gala Schniga, Buckeye Gala). Scab-prone.
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