Merton Gem
Dessert & Culinary · Plum · Prunus domestica L. · 1 accession
Raised in 1923 at John Innes Horticultural Institute, Merton and named in 1965. Fruits have very juicy flesh with a little sweet and moderately rich flavour. Trees usually produce a second crop of plums which ripen in early October.
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- Picking time
- Early-Mid September
- Flowering
- 16th April (10%) · 20th April (full) · 2nd May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert & Culinary
- Shape
- Oval-Oblong
- Stone
- Clingstone
- Skin colour
- Purple-red
- Fruit weight
- 51.50 g
- Stalk length
- 10.49 mm
Source · National Fruit Collection
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