North American Fruit Explorers mailing list at ibiblio

["John Barbowski" <jbarbowski@hotmail.com>]

Hi All,

I was in Bamberg Germany last year and outside a monastery, I discovered trees with fruit similar to what Lon describes. The 'plums' are slightly larger than a cherry, green when un-ripe, turn yellow with pink tones when ripe. Very sweet plum taste.

My Czech friend calls them spendliky. They are very common in the Czech republic.  Are they an old variety of 'green gage'?

John B

>From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>

>Reply-To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>

>To: NAFEX <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>

>Subject: [NAFEX] cherry plums

>Date: Mon, 28 Jun 2004 21:56:24 -0700

>

>Interesting how things work out.  I don't care to grow cherries because of

>the cherry fruit fly.  However, some years ago I planted a row of seedlings

>of a plumcot.  One of them has been producing small yellow plums of very

>good quality that are already ripe.  It has been doing this for several

>years.  The catch is that the plums are the size of cherries.  Even the pits

>are as small as a cherry pit.  You would actually think they were cherries,

>until you ate one.  Good, juicy and very pleasant, but obviously a plum.

>But no cherry fruit flies.  So maybe they will be my "cherries" from now on.

>-Lon Rombough

>_______________________________________________

>nafex mailing list

>nafex@lists.ibiblio.org

>

>**YOU MUST BE SUBSCRIBED TO POST!**

>All other messages are discarded.

>No exceptions.

>----

>To subscribe or unsubscribe, go to the bottom of this page (also can be used to change other email options):

>http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/nafex

>

>File attachments are NOT stripped by this list

>TAKE STEPS TO PROTECT YOURSELF FROM COMPUTER VIRUSES!

>Please do not send binary files.

>Use plain text ONLY in emails!

>

>Message archives are here:

>https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/nafex

>

>NAFEX web site:   http://www.nafex.org/

---

Enjoy 25MB of inbox storage and 10MB per file attachment  With MSN Premium  Get 2 Months FREE*