Olympia
Dessert & Culinary · Plum · Prunus domestica L. · 1 accession
Raised at Bedford by Laxton Bros. in 1904. It was awarded the Award of Merit by the RHS in 1933. Introduced in 1937. Fruits have firm, yellow, juicy flesh with good flavour.
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- Picking time
- Early-Mid September
- Flowering
- 9th April (10%) · 14th April (full) · 27th April (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium-large
- Type
- Dessert & Culinary
- Shape
- Oval/Long
- Stone
- Clingstone
- Skin colour
- Purple-red
- Fruit weight
- 35.40 g
- Stalk length
- 15.29 mm
Source · National Fruit Collection
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