Purple Pershore

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• Self-fertility: Self-fertile
• Flowering group: 4
• Awards: RHS AGM (former) 1993

Purple Pershore is well-known and reliable English culinary plum. The fruit is large, and perfect for almost any kind of plum cookery, particularly plum jam.

The plums should be picked at the red stage if you are using them for the kitchen, or left on the tree until they are dark purple for eating fresh.

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Trained Purple Pershore plum trees for sale

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Growing and Training

Purple Pershore is an almost foolproof plum variety, self-fertile and with very good disease resistance. It can be grown throughout the UK.

Purple Pershore characteristics

• Self-fertilitySelf-fertile
• Flowering group4
• Pollinating othersAverage
• AwardsRHS AGM (former) - 1993
• Picking period (southern UK)mid-August
• CroppingHeavy
• Keeping1 week
• Food usesEating freshCulinary
• Disease resistanceGood
• CankerSome resistance
• SilverleafSome resistance
• Country of originUnited Kingdom
• Period of origin1900 - 1949
• Fruit colourPurple