Woolston Black
Dessert · Plum · Prunus domestica L. · 1 accession
Raised by Dowling of Southampton in about 1843. It was received by the National Fruit Trials in 1949 from G.M. Taylor, Longniddry, East Lothian. Fruits have fairly firm, moderately juicy flesh with a sweet, rich, high quality gage flavour.
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- Picking time
- Late August
- Flowering
- 16th April (10%) · 20th April (full) · 2nd May (petal fall)
NFC characterisation
- Size
- small-medium
- Type
- Dessert
- Shape
- Round/Oval-Oblong
- Stone
- Semi-freestone/Clingstone
- Skin colour
- Purple-red
- Fruit weight
- 13.50 g
- Stalk length
- 11.20 mm
Source · National Fruit Collection
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