Russian Greengage
Dessert & Culinary · Plum · Prunus domestica L. · 1 accession
Thought to be of Russian origin. A variety of this name was known to be growing in the U.S.A. in 1940. Fruits have rather soft, quite juicy flesh with a moderately sweet and fair flavour. It lacks the true gage flavour.
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- Picking time
- Early-Mid August
- Flowering
- 18th April (10%) · 22nd April (full) · 10th May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- medium
- Type
- Dessert & Culinary
- Shape
- Oval-Oblong
- Stone
- Clingstone
- Skin colour
- Yellow-green
- Fruit weight
- 25.60 g
- Stalk length
- 10.12 mm
Source · National Fruit Collection
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