Opal
Dessert · Plum · Prunus domestica L. · 1 accession
Raised in 1925 at the Horticultural Research Station, Alnarp, Sweden. Fruits have moderately firm flesh with a good sweet and rich flavour. Buds and flowers tend to be susceptible to bird damage.
Material in the National Fruit Collection is available under license.
- Picking time
- Early August
- Flowering
- 16th April (10%) · 20th April (full) · 29th April (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Oval-Oblong
- Stone
- Freestone
- Skin colour
- Yellow/Purple-red
- Fruit weight
- 27.50 g
- Stalk length
- 16.47 mm
Source · National Fruit Collection
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