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Prune Amere

Culinary · Plum · Prunus domestica L. · 1 accession

Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1951 from the Station de Recherches, Ghent, Belgium. Fruits have firm, little juicy flesh with a moderately sweet and rather astringent flavour.

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Picking time
Early August
Flowering
20th April (10%) · 24th April (full) · 4th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
Size
medium
Type
Culinary
Shape
Oval-Oblong
Stone
Clingstone
Skin colour
Yellow-green/Purple-red
Fruit weight
25.60 g
Stalk length
9.26 mm

Source · National Fruit Collection

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