Smith’s Pruin
£19.50
Produces ovate smallish plums with a dark red brown skin that are ripe around mid August. Plums have a bloom that is easily removed and an indistinct suture. Sweet flesh with the stone partially clinging.
Known locally in the Framilode area south of Gloucester along the River Severn but lost over the years from sites to be found on the one site at Framilode in 2006.
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