Merton Gage
Dessert · Plum · Prunus domestica L. · 1 accession
Raised in 1923 at John Innes Horticultural Institute, Merton by M.B. Crane and named in about 1952. Fruits have moderately juicy flesh with a very sweet and fairly rich flavour.
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- Picking time
- Mid-Late August
- Flowering
- 16th April (10%) · 20th April (full) · 5th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Oval-Oblong
- Stone
- Semi-freestone
- Skin colour
- Yellow/Purple-red
- Fruit weight
- 45.70 g
- Stalk length
- 12.55 mm
Source · National Fruit Collection
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