Damson Blue Violet
Culinary · Plum · Prunus insititia L. · 1 accession
Local to Westmorland. It was received by the National Fruit Trials from there in 1932. Fruits have fairly firm, juicy, subacid flesh with a good, fairly rich flavour.
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- Picking time
- Early-Mid August
- Flowering
- 15th April (10%) · 19th April (full) · 1st May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small-medium
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Oval/Long
- Stone
- Freestone/Semi-freestone
- Skin colour
- Purple-red/Violet blue
- Fruit weight
- 9.30 g
- Stalk length
- 8.49 mm
Source · National Fruit Collection
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