Opal
Variety of Plum · Prunus domestica
Early, sweet dessert plum with reddish-purple skin and gage-like aroma.
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6🇸🇪 Sweden 1925
Taste & characteristics
Taste
juicysweetaromatic
Profile
- Parentage
- Oullins Reneklode x Early Favourite
- Breeder
- Alnarp
- Pollination
- self-sterile – needs a pollinator variety
- Fruit weight
- 30 g
Flowering & harvest
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Description
Fruit
Small to medium round fruit, red-purple bloomed, with sweet aromatic yellow flesh; stone parts well.
Growth
Medium vigour, compact, well winter-hardy.
Yield
Regular and heavy bearing; early in the season.
Notes
Self-fertile; one of the best early garden plums.
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