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Dessert & Culinary · Plum · Prunus domestica L. · 1 accession
Raised at the Horticultural Research Station, Alnarp, Sweden and introduced in 1960. Self-fertile. Fruits have orange coloured flesh and are sweet and juicy with good flavour. Rather susceptible to bacterial canker and to fruit cracking.
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- Picking time
- Mid September
- Flowering
- 12th April (10%) · 17th April (full) · 28th April (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert & Culinary
- Shape
- Oval
- Stone
- Freestone
- Skin colour
- Purple-red
- Fruit weight
- 67.30 g
- Stalk length
- 15.02 mm
Source · National Fruit Collection
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