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Allgrove's Superb
Dessert plum
Prunus domestica L.
A coloured sport of Jefferson. It was named and introduced in 1915 by Allgrove's nurseries, Langley, Bucks. It received the Award of Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society in 1915. Fruits have greenish, soft, not very juicy flesh with a sweet and pleasant flavour.
- Availability
- Material available from the National Fruit Collection.
- Parentage:
- Sport of Jefferson
Accession No.
1961 - 096
- Accession name
- Allgrove's Superb
- Flowering time ›››
- 10th April10% flowering
14th AprilFull (80%) flowering
26th April90% petal fall - Picking time
- Late August 1
- Size
- medium-large 1
- Shape
- Oval-Oblong 1
- Weight
- 45.60 g 1
- Stalk Length
- 14.29 1
- Skin Colour
- Purple-red 1
- Stalk Length
- 14.29 mm 1
- Stone
- Semi-freestone 1
- References:
- 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.
Design: Chris Turnbull, September 2019