Thames Cross
Dessert · Plum · Prunus domestica L. · 1 accession
Raised in 1925 at Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol by G.T. Spinks and selected in about 1938. Fruits have medium firm, very juicy flesh with a moderately sweet and rich flavour. Fruits tend to bruise very easily.
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- Picking time
- Early-Mid September
- Flowering
- 15th April (10%) · 20th April (full) · 3rd May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- large-very large
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Oval/Long
- Stone
- Semi-freestone
- Skin colour
- Yellow-green
- Fruit weight
- 99.82 g
- Stalk length
- 10.01 mm
Source · National Fruit Collection
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