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echinosum wrote:

InSo, unless a tree looks exceptional in some way, it's probably just
worth calling it a wild plum, and using it or ignoring it to taste.

I understand what you are saying, but we need to understand that "wild
plum" here doesn't mean "the wild ancestor of the domestic plum", which
it is at risk of being misunderstood as. I don't think such a wild
ancestor really exists freely growing in the wild and reproducing. I
don't think that's what you get if you germinate domestic plumstones.

It doesn't, and we don't know if it ever did!

"Mirabelle", whatever that means, is commonly sold as a hedging plant,
so if some trees are not inconsistent with the kind of thing that is
sold is Mirabelle, lets call them that, being aware it is a rather vague
description.

Or bullace? Because that's the native/naturalised UK form of
P. domestica.


Regards,
Nick Maclaren.