Bittern
Culinary · Plum · Prunus domestica L. · 1 accession
Raised at Sawbridgeworth by Francis Rivers. It first fruited in about 1872 and introduced in 1885/86. Self-fertile. Fruits have pale yellow, firm, moderately juicy, but acid flesh.
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- Picking time
- Early-Mid August
- Flowering
- 7th April (10%) · 11th April (full) · 22nd April (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Oval
- Stone
- Freestone
- Skin colour
- Purple-red
- Fruit weight
- 24.20 g
- Stalk length
- 15.75 mm
Source · National Fruit Collection
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