Queen's Crown
Dessert & Culinary · Plum · Prunus domestica L. · 2 accessions
Received by the National Fruit Trials in 1973 from a tree over 40 years old at Lower House Farm, Eastham, Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire.Fruits have sweet, coarse flesh with a honey-like flavour.
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Accession 1973-301 · Queen's Crown (Eastham)
- Picking time
- Late August-Early September
- Flowering
- 19th April (10%) · 24th April (full) · 1st May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert & Culinary
- Shape
- Oval-Oblong
- Stone
- Freestone
- Skin colour
- Whitish/Yellow
- Fruit weight
- 57.10 g
- Stalk length
- 15.27 mm
Accession 1973-302 · Queen's Crown (Powick)
- Picking time
- Late August-Early September
- Flowering
- 21st April (10%) · 25th April (full) · 3rd May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large
- Type
- Dessert & Culinary
- Shape
- Oval-Oblong
- Stone
- Freestone
- Skin colour
- Whitish/Yellow
- Fruit weight
- 68.90 g
- Stalk length
- 14.66 mm
Source · National Fruit Collection
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