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Victoria
The most well-known plum. Deservedly popular and the main commercial plum in the UK. Very nice to eat when ripe and cooks & preserves well.
Pollination group: C
Picking time: late August
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Warwickshire Drooper
It’s name is apt – in time having a drooping habit. Large yellow fruits speckled red with sweet yellow juicy flesh.
Pollination group: B
Picking time: early September
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Winterbourne Magnum
A dual purpose variety. Medium sized plums, oval in shape, with purple to dark red skin with a light bloom and sweet yellow flesh.
Picking time – mid August
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Yellow Egg
The original Pershore plum! For culinary use. Was grown much in the Vale of Evesham. Large yellow fruits. Self-fertile. Hardy, reliable, heavy cropping.
Picking time: early / mid August
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Mirabelle de Nancy
Related to the Damson, arising in the middle east arriving in France in the middle ages. Small round yellow fruits up to 3cm diameter ripen early August. Its yellow flesh is sweet and richly flavoured. Partially self fertile. Not often cultivated in the UK, flowering early it benefits from shelter and a warm spring.
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Mirabelle Golden Sphere
A relatively new variety bred producing good sized yellow spherical fruits with golden flesh that is sweet with a plum like flavour. Good as a dessert fruit it can also be cooked. Though hardy like other Mirabelles it flowers early so benefits from a sheltered situation.
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Mirabelle Gypsy
Gypsy is a result of a breeding programme in Ukraine to create improved varieties from naturalized Cherry Plum with its small fruits. Introduced in 1995 it produces larger round bright red fruits with sweet orange flesh. Ripens late August and considered partially self fertile.