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Wild Plums
"Roger Tonkin" wrote
Nick says... In article , 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. . There are about 4 trees, 3 on one side of the ruin and one on the other, so a stone is not the answer. Sounds like what the French call Mirabelles, small round plums from which they make a favourite jam. Lots of trees around here and once you know what to look for the more you see. Usually a windfall on the road or pavement give the trees away and in our experience the red ones make the best jam. -- Regards. Bob Hobden. Posted to this Newsgroup from the W of London, UK |
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