Cornish Gilliflower
Also known as Calleville d'Angleterre +22
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A dessert apple with yellowish flesh and green-yellow skin, conical in shape; sweet, aromatic, firm and dry. Picked in mid-October.
Origin · Truro, Cornwall
Released 1813
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Scent
- aromatic
- Firmness
- firm
- Flavour
- rich
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour RedBackground colour Green yellow
- Flesh
- Yellowish
- Shape
- Conical
- Size
- medium-largeWidth 70.00 mmHeight 65.00 mm
Origin & family
Where Cornish Gilliflower began
Recorded origin
Truro, Cornwall
- Released
- 1813
Cornish Gilliflower’s family
2 varieties · 1 recorded linkArrows follow parents → children
Cornish Gilliflower
Truro, Cornwall
Photo: National Fruit Collection, Brogdale · UK Open Government Licence v2.0
Cornish Gilliflower → Cornish PineParent · Recorded
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Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- size
- medium-large
- type
- Dessert
- shape
- Conical
- width
- 70.00 mm
- height
- 65.00 mm
- ribbing
- medium
- firmness
- firm
- synonyms
- Calleville d'Angleterre, Calville d'Angleterre, Cornish Giliflower, Cornish Gillyflower, Cornish Juli Flower, Cornish July flower, Cornish Julyflower, Cornwalliser Nelken, Cornwalliser Nelken Apfel, Cornwalliser Nelkenapfel, Cornwallisser, Gilliflower, Julie Flomer, July Flomer, July Flower, July-Flower, Julyflower, Kalvil angliiskii, Nelken Apfel, Nelken-Apfel, Pomme Regelans, Red Gilliflower, Regalans
- mother to
- Cornish Pine
- over colour
- Red
- flesh colour
- Yellowish
- ground colour
- Green yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.