Gilliflower of Gloucester
Dessert apple
Malus domestica Borkh.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Material held in the Gloucestershire Orchard Trust collection (link to website)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Paramor)
- Material held in the Marcher Apple Network collections (Tredomen)
Accession No.
1952 - 055
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1952 from Saul, Gloucestershire. Fruits have fine, tender flesh with a sweet, subacid flavour.
- Accession name
- Gilliflower of Gloucester
- Flowering time ›››
- 4th May10% flowering
9th MayFull (80%) flowering 14th May90% petal fall
- Picking time
- Early September 1
- Size
- large-very large 1
- Shape
- Conical 1
- Ribbing
- weak-medium 1
- Crown
- medium 1
- Ground Colour
- Whitish yellow 1
- Over Colour
- Orange 1
- Over Colour Amount
- low 1
- Over Colour Pattern
- washed out 1
- Russet
- low 1
- Coarseness
- fine 1
- Juiciness
- dry 1
- Flesh Colour
- White 1

- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
- 2. Smith, M. (1971) National Apple Register
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