Description

• Harvest: Late
• Description: Partial tip bearer. Fruit is medium to large in size, roundish-conical in shape and tapering to a five-pointed base. Skin is dull green with reddish brown coloration and thin russet covering. Sometimes the fruit will develop a clear dark red colour when fully exposed to the sun
• Vigour: V3
• Taste: Extremely rich and flavourful, often with an intriguing clove-like aroma
• Storage: 3 months or more
• Uses: Eating
• Background: Found in a cottage garden in Truro, Cornwall in about 1800 and in 1813. Discovered by Sir Christopher Hawkins, who was awarded a silver medal “for his exertions”. The word ‘gilliflower’ is possibly a corruption of French word  girofle  meaning clove, believed to be a reference to its odour when cut