Description
Sheep’s Nose, also known as Black Gilliflower, may not be a particularly good fresh-eating apple, but it purees into a tasty, smooth sauce. It is a handsome, dark-colored apple, tall and ribbed, and, as its name implies, it has a crown like a sheep’s nose. It is a long-storing apple that ripens September to October.
Discovered: 1700s, Connecticut
Parentage: Unknown
Harvest: Midseason
History
Sheep’s Nose was discovered in Connecticut in the 1700s, pre-Revolutionary War.
