Rodley Blackjack
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Known to be used in the past for dyeing, also as dessert plum and as a rootstock as it suckers readily.. Plums often round in shape, but sometimes elongated even flattened. Flesh green with a damson flavour.
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The plum arose in the area of Frampton Cotterell and Winterbourne just north of Bristol hence its synonym and presumably would have been popular in August at the Bristol markets.
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How can a damson be sweet? It sounds like an antithesis! Maybe called a damson because of the small fruit size – no more than 25mm/1″ across. Elliptical in shape, the dark purple skin has sweet greenish yellow flesh beneath. Stone partially clings when ripe from late August / early September. Arose in Gloucestershire and grown much along the lower Severn in the recent past.
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Rowles Pruin
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