Reine Claude de Vars
Dessert · Plum · Prunus domestica L. · 1 accession
A French variety grown in Correze. It was received by the National Fruit Trials in 1966 from the Station de Recherches d'Arboriculture Fruitiere, Pont-de-la-Maye. Fruits have moderately firm, not very juicy flesh with a little sweet and acid flavour.
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- Picking time
- Mid-Late August
- Flowering
- 17th April (10%) · 21st April (full) · 2nd May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Round
- Stone
- Semi-freestone
- Skin colour
- Yellow-green/Purple-red
- Fruit weight
- 20.00 g
- Stalk length
- 11.20 mm
Source · National Fruit Collection
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