High-quality heirloom dessert and cooking apple, once awarded a silver medal by the Royal Horticultural Society. Medium to large, round-conic and ribbed fruit has soft green skin, flushed and streaked with red and flecked or webbed with russet. Known for its aromatic flavor and perfumey clove-like scent. The Gilliflower moniker is thought be an alteration of the French word for cloves (girofle) and is also used to describe carnations and other flowers in the Dianthus genus, which share this aromatic scent.
Introduced to us at Scott Farm in Vermont, where you can often find these apples at the farmstand in mid to late September. Blooms mid to late season. Z4.
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