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Burrell's Red Myrobalan

Culinary · Plum · Prunus cerasifera Ehrh. · 1 accession

Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1924 from R.J. Burrell, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. The original tree grew in a garden at Littlebury, Essex in about 1870. Fruits have soft, juicy flesh which is a little sweet and insipid.

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Picking time
Late July-Early August
Flowering
26th March (10%) · 4th April (full) · 14th April (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
Size
small-medium
Type
Culinary
Shape
Round
Stone
Clingstone
Skin colour
Purple-red
Fruit weight
15.00 g
Stalk length
13.65 mm

Source · National Fruit Collection

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