Kea
Culinary · Plum · Prunus domestica L. · 1 accession
A chance seedling found and much grown in the Kea district of Cornwall. It is often propagated from suckers. Fruits have juicy, rather acid flesh. Cooks well.
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- Picking time
- Mid-Late August
- Flowering
- 16th April (10%) · 20th April (full) · 1st May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small-medium
- Type
- Culinary
- Shape
- Oval
- Stone
- Clingstone
- Skin colour
- Yellow-green/Purple-red
- Fruit weight
- 14.80 g
- Stalk length
- 13.44 mm
Source · National Fruit Collection
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