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  • Could this be a Mirabelle Plum Tree?

    Behind our houses is a tall tree which produces cherry sized fruits every year. They are smooth and yellow. I was always told they are greengages but am now thinking it might be a Mirabelle Plum. Can anyone confirm this and if so can I make something with them?
    AKA Angie

  • #2
    Cherry plum prunus cerasifera is yellow or red.
    Makes wine, jam, same as normal plums.
    Last edited by Two_Sheds; 16-08-2010, 06:41 PM. Reason: correction
    All gardeners know better than other gardeners." -- Chinese Proverb.

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    • #3
      Oh yum!!!

      I had to leave mine on my lottie

      I'm hoping to get a yellow and a red one this autumn!

      I just ate mine- or froze them for crumbles ( wasn't a huge tree)

      My greengage goes yellowy/green when very ripe- and the fruit size is about the same as if you make a circle with the tip of your thumb and 1st finger!
      Mirabelles are smaller.

      Lucky you!!!!
      "Nicos, Queen of Gooooogle" and... GYO's own Miss Marple

      Location....Normandy France

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Nicos View Post
        Oh yum!!!

        I had to leave mine on my lottie

        I'm hoping to get a yellow and a red one this autumn!

        I just ate mine- or froze them for crumbles ( wasn't a huge tree)

        My greengage goes yellowy/green when very ripe- and the fruit size is about the same as if you make a circle with the tip of your thumb and 1st finger!
        Mirabelles are smaller.

        Lucky you!!!!
        Definitely a Mirabelle then It is loaded with fruit so will be going round with a large container
        AKA Angie

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        • #5
          Awash with Mirabelles this year so have made jam, chutney and highly alcoholic hooch.
          Gardening requires a lot of water - most of it in the form of perspiration. Lou Erickson, critic and poet

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          • #6
            Mirabelles are normally bigger, the size of a victoria but round - Prunus x domestica var. syriaca

            See here for picture
            http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirabelle_plum


            Sounds like you've got a cherry plum or myrobalan - Prunus cerasifera
            Most of the pictures are red fruit but they do occasionly have yellow ones
            AgroAtlas - Crops - Prunus cerasifera Ehrh. - Cherry-plum.

            Still nice though!
            Last edited by purplekat; 16-08-2010, 05:20 PM.

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