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16-09-2012, 10:27 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Roger Tonkin[_2_]
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Wild Plums
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Roger Tonkin wrote:
Whist out today, we remembered that we had found a few plum trees
growing wild a couple of years ago. Visted them and picked about 4lbs to
make jam. They are quite small, damson size, but not the shape of a
damson and the flesh is quite yellow. Skins vary from red through to
blueish. The trees are a mess, the lower branches being stripped bare by
the cattle and dead wood every where. They are situated around the ruins
of what I think is an old farm cottage which to my knowledge has not
been inhabited (or even had any walls standing) for at least 20 years.
What I wondered was if this might be an old variety of plum that perhaps
is rare, but how do I find out?
With difficulty. Looking at Clapham, Tutin and Warburg, I would
be hard put to tell Prunus domestica from P. cerasifera. The
point is that both are very variable. It doesn't make a lot of
culinary difference. If the fruit are definitely good, it could
be a definite old variety, otherwise it might just be a tree
(grown from a stone) that was good enough to leave alone.
Regards,
Nick Maclaren.
There are about 4 trees, 3 on one side of the ruin and one on the other,
so a stone is not the answer.
--
Roger T
700 ft up in Mid-Wales
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