Lawson's Golden
Dessert · Plum · Prunus domestica L. · 1 accession
Parentage is confused - Green Gage X White Magnum Bonum according to Scott; Reine-Claude X Coe's Golden Drop according to Hedrick. Raised in about 1842 by Archibald Gorrie of Annat Gardens, Errol, Perthshire, Scotland and named after Charles Lawson a nurseryman of Edinburgh. Fruits have fairly soft, very juicy flesh with a very sweet, rich and good flavour.
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- Picking time
- Late August-Mid September
- Flowering
- 22nd April (10%) · 26th April (full) · 7th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Oval-Oblong
- Stone
- Clingstone
- Skin colour
- Yellow/Violet blue
- Fruit weight
- 29.67 g
- Stalk length
- 13.04 mm
Source · National Fruit Collection
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