Dessert plum
A French variety grown in Correze. It was received by the National Fruit Trials in 1966 from the Station de Recherches d'Arboriculture Fruitiere, Pont-de-la-Maye. Fruits have moderately firm, not very juicy flesh with a little sweet and acid flavour.
Availability Material in the National Fruit Collection is available under license.
Accession name Reine-Claude de Vars
Flowering time 17th April 10% flowering 21st April Full (80%) flowering2nd May 90% petal fall
Picking time Mid-Late August 1
Size medium 1
Type Dessert 1
Shape Round 1
Fruit Weight 20.00 g 1
Skin Colour Yellow-green/Purple-red 1
Stalk Length 11.20 mm 1
Stone Semi-freestone 1
References: 1. NFC fruit (undated) Unpublished characterisation by staff at NFC, Brogdale.