Avon Cross
Dessert & Culinary · Plum · Prunus domestica L. · 1 accession
Raised at Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol in 1920 by G.T. Spinks and introduced in 1931. Self-fertile. Fruits are very juicy and sweet with a gage like flavour.
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- Picking time
- Mid-Late September
- Flowering
- 17th April (10%) · 21st April (full) · 29th April (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert & Culinary
- Shape
- Oval
- Stone
- Freestone
- Skin colour
- Purple-red
- Fruit weight
- 60.80 g
- Stalk length
- 14.14 mm
Source · National Fruit Collection
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