Bimbo dropped these off and I have no idea what sort of plum they are. They are from Benny’s backyard.

Can anyone help out???

This is plum 2…

This is plum 1

plum 2.. is the flesh yellow?

Plum 1 is the flesh red?

http://www.gardeningforyou.com/sites/fthorpe/images/plum%20Santa%20Rosa.jpg ?

roughbarked said:

Plum 1 is the flesh red?

Here is the said plum

http://www.daleysfruit.com.au/plant/Plum-Mariposa.htm
http://flickr.com/photos/eli_makes/2780074685/

Inside plum 2

Lucky1 said:

Inside plum 2

Both Santa Rosa and Mariposa can have reddish flesh, Mariposa usually more so. Santa Rosa is often more of a yellow flesh but these are both early plums.

roughbarked said:

Both Santa Rosa and Mariposa can have reddish flesh, Mariposa usually more so. Santa Rosa is often more of a yellow flesh but these are both early plums.

Thank you:)

No probs I could still be incorrect.. Maybe I better look up the where we are thread for your location.

OK looks like near enough to the Ingle Farm Sporting Club ;)

What about Angelina / Angelica / angel-something plums?

greenish flesh ^

greenish flesh ^ and late Jan/Feburary ripening

roughbarked said:

greenish flesh ^ and late Jan/Feburary ripening

I take it this is for the angel-plum?

I remember them because somebody was trying to buy them in Coles (must have been earlier this year) and his plum looked nothing like the photo the poor checkout person was trying to ID it from…the supervisor knew straight away, I guess she’d been ID’ing them for a few days…I bought some llater and they were a great buy…

Angelina are nice plums to eat.. amongst the better ones. However they don ‘t ripen until a week before they start picking Semillon grapes.

boiled plum dumplings using half normal and half potato flour……yum.
this recipe http://www.recipelink.com/mf/3/9154 is probably closest to what i’m talking about, but of course there are variations. the only thing i do different (from that linked recipe) is add some sugar on the plum before wrapping it in the dough.

currently gorging myself on one very special plum.. known as the plumcot. Not a huge bearer in my area but so delicious to eat. They are dropping like flies to the ground at the moment and my populations of ants and slaters are trying to beat me to every bite.. after the birds get first taste..

roughbarked said:

currently gorging myself on one very special plum.. known as the plumcot. Not a huge bearer in my area but so delicious to eat. They are dropping like flies to the ground at the moment and my populations of ants and slaters are trying to beat me to every bite.. after the birds get first taste..

are they a cross between a plum and an apricot? Do they have a apricot taste to them at all?

bluegreen said:

roughbarked said:

currently gorging myself on one very special plum.. known as the plumcot. Not a huge bearer in my area but so delicious to eat. They are dropping like flies to the ground at the moment and my populations of ants and slaters are trying to beat me to every bite.. after the birds get first taste..

are they a cross between a plum and an apricot? Do they have a apricot taste to them at all?

Hang on I have to put the battery back in my camera.. ;0 yes they have a furry feel to the skin like an apricot.. have the look of a plum have an apricot seed rather than a plum seed and taste gloriously like the best of both worlds. Yes a hybrid.. There are several all with dissimilar similarities in the names ie; plucot another new one i was involved in is currently being registered as perricot.

I think I’ll have a look out for those roughbarked, they look yum! Do they come on dwarfing root stock?

They can come as they are or you can put an order in .. I will find some dwarfing rootstock and graft it on. ;) Ask at yourt local nurseries to find if it will fruit in your area. They’ll know where to get it.

roughbarked said:

They can come as they are or you can put an order in .. I will find some dwarfing rootstock and graft it on. ;) Ask at yourt local nurseries to find if it will fruit in your area. They’ll know where to get it.

I’m in Melbourne where both plums and apricots do OK, so I expect these will too.

Yep I gather you are out Ringwood way?

This tree was originally purchased from a supplier in Victoria. I have since budded the tree onto my own rootsock as his rootstock brought dry rot with it.

Plumcots will probably perform better in Melbourne than they do here.

http://www.mountainviewsnursery.com.au/products/plumcot.html

Oh and by the way. My rootstock is neither plum nor apricot. It is nectarine.

http://www.treesofantiquity.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=454

http://books.google.com.au/books?id=g7-hK5l7jS4C&pg=PA33&lpg=PA33&dq=Plumcot+trees&source=web&ots=1fESdFlenC&sig=mR0ytBT154HFIy_CcGS96CQqtpM&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result