Collaos cider apple tree

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• Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
• Pollination group: 5
• Uses: Hard cider

Collaos is a traditional Spanish hard cider apple variety, and a useful choice for European-style cider blends.  The small green apples produce a tannic semi-bittersharp juice.

The apples ripen late in the apple season, usually mid-October.

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  Mature height: 8ft-12ft after 10 years
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How to grow

Collaos flowers late in the apple bloom season, and is not a good pollinator of other apple varieties.

Although most of Spain has a hot dry Mediterreanean climate, roughly similar to southern California, Collaos comes from the region of Asturias which has a year-round mild wet climate.

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History

Collaos is recognised as a traditional local variety by the Regulatory Council of Origin Cider of Asturias.

Collaos characteristics

• Gardening skillAverage
• Self-fertilityNot self-fertile
• Pollination group5
• Pollinating othersPoor
• Picking seasonVery late
• UsesHard cider
• Keeping (of fruit)2-3 weeks
• General resistanceGood
• CankerSome susceptibility
• ScabSome resistance
• MildewSome resistance
• Summer maximum temperaturesCool ( 20-24C / 68-75F)Warm (25-30C / 76-85F)
• Country of originSpain
• Fruit colorGreen