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Damons? Plums?
"Sacha" wrote in message
"FarmI" ask@itshall be given wrote: "Sacha" wrote in message We had some people in today who live in France and they were looking for Damsons which they say seem to be unknown there (Paris and Corsica) This got us onto what is the difference between a Damson and a Plum because both are Prunus and probably domestica? I understand that damsons tend to make smaller trees but if anyone can explain in terms of flavour or use, enquiring minds would be really grateful. ;-) You do ask some interesting questions. I just mentally chuck them all into the 'prunus' bin in my brain, so was interested to find out more after reading the discussions. But I must say, the answers you got on this one!!!!.......they had the head of this little black duck spinning....... snip There is also an interesting discussion on archaelogical finds of plum stones and that 'no domestica plum stones...have been found under the ashes of Pompeii' and that the plums mentioned by Pliny (who wrote of the plum from Damascus)were 'all insitias, or if domesticas, were recent introductions to Europe' Interesting topic. Wow! Talk about getting the bit between your teeth........ ;-)) Thank you so muchfor going to all this trouble and producing such interesting info. I especially like the bit above about no such plum stones being found at Pompeii - for some reason human details like that make a topic much more interesting to me! I'm going to do the unforgiveable on usenet.... Me too :-)) Prolly why I like that book so much. It's full of such snippets. |
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