Early Favourite
Dessert & Culinary · Plum · Prunus domestica L. · 1 accession
Raised by Rivers at Sawbridgeworth in 1820 and introduced in about 1834. It was awarded a First Class Certificate from the RHS in 1895. Fruits have green, juicy, sweet flesh.
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- Picking time
- Late July-Early August
- Flowering
- 15th April (10%) · 20th April (full) · 28th April (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small
- Type
- Dessert & Culinary
- Shape
- Oval
- Stone
- Freestone
- Skin colour
- Purple-red/Violet blue
- Fruit weight
- 16.60 g
- Stalk length
- 7.32 mm
Source · National Fruit Collection
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