Primate
Dessert & Culinary · Plum · Prunus domestica L. · 1 accession
Raised by Rivers Nurseries at Sawbridgeworth. It first fruited in 1889 and was introduced in 1897. Received the Award of Merit from the RHS in 1895. Fruits have yellow, juicy flesh with a fair flavour and cooks well.
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- Picking time
- Mid-Late September
- Flowering
- 21st April (10%) · 26th April (full) · 8th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert & Culinary
- Shape
- Oval-Oblong
- Stone
- Clingstone
- Skin colour
- Purple-red
- Fruit weight
- 108.50 g
- Stalk length
- 17.86 mm
Source · National Fruit Collection
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