Applevariety
Gilliflower of Gloucester
A dessert apple with white flesh and whitish-yellow skin, conical in shape; sweet and mildly tart. Picked in early September.
Taste & texture
- Sweetness
- sweet
- Acidity
- subacid
- Firmness
- tender
- Flavour
- sweet, subacid
- Used for
- Dessert apple
How to spot it
- Skin
- Surface colour flushed pinkish orange mottled carmineSkin texture rather thick and toughBackground colour pale yellow
- Flesh
- white
- Shape
- very uneven and irregular, tall, conic, convex to concave
- Size
- medium to largeFruit width 66-76 mmFruit height 65-71 mm
- Appearance
- Surface ridges prominent ribs base to apexRusset pattern russet dots, streaks and patches
Origin & family
Field notes
Original source notes
Fruit & tree
- tree
- upright
- flavour
- sweet, subacid
- ribbing
- prominent ribs base to apex
- fruit size
- medium to large
- fruit shape
- very uneven and irregular, tall, conic, convex to concave
- fruit width
- 66-76 mm
- over colour
- flushed pinkish orange mottled carmine
- russet type
- russet dots, streaks and patches
- flesh colour
- white
- fruit height
- 65-71 mm
- skin texture
- rather thick and tough
- flesh texture
- fine, tender
- ground colour
- pale yellow
Photos
National Fruit Collection, BrogdaleUK Open Government Licence v2.0 Whole and cut, from the UK National Fruit Collection.