loveapple

This is the most common and admirable contrast in the vegetable kingdom; the brilliant red blossom or fruit, with green leaves, as instance the fiery tulip, the crimson rose, the scarlet verbena, the burning dahlia, the cherry and apple trees, the tomato or loveapple of my childhood, and the scarlet maple and sumach of our American October.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

The term "Apple" was applied by the ancients indiscriminately to almost every kind of round fleshy fruit, [27] such as the thornapple, the pineapple, and the loveapple.

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie