Plum
Cultivation and uses
Plum cultivars include: Damson (purple or black skin, green flesh, clingstone, astringent) Greengage (firm, green flesh and skin even when ripe) Mirabelle (dark yellow, predominantly grown in northeast France) Satsuma plum (firm red flesh with a red skin) Victoria (yellow flesh with a red or mottled skin) Yellowgage or golden plum (similar to greengage, but yellow) Different plum cultivars Damsons Greengages Mirabelles Victoria plums When it flowers in the early spring, a plum tree will be covered in blossoms, and in a good year approximately 50% of the flowers will be pollinated and become plums. Flowering starts after 80 growing degree days.
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