Apple varieties, United Kingdom
Cornish Gilliflower
The record of the National Fruit Collection, at Brogdale in Kent, describes it1:
Found in a cottage garden near Truro, Cornwall. It was introduced by Sir Christopher Hawkins in 1813. Fruits have firm, rather dry flesh with a sweet and rich aromatic flavour.
Family tree
Offspring in the atlas
- Cornish Pine United Kingdom, by 1920
Sources
- Cornish Gilliflower (accession 1947 - 116), National Fruit Collection, Brogdale, Kent (Defra). Supports: the description quoted; the use; the fruit's size, shape and colours and the flesh, from the collection's characterisation; the picking time at Brogdale (mid october); the other names.
- Using whole-genome SNP data to reconstruct a large multi-generation pedigree in apple germplasm, Hélène Muranty and others, BMC Plant Biology 20:2, 2020. Supports: its ploidy, diploid (supplementary table S1).
