Eetbare tuin-edible garden Prunus domestica L. "Reine Claude" - Green plum

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Prunus domestica L. "Reine Claude" is a hardy tree that grows green plums which are known as reine claude. When speaking of the plucked fruits it is written without caps, when discussing the tree itself it is called "Reine Claude". The species is named after Claude, the wife of King Francois I of France.

The fruits can be eaten out of hand, used in a jam or used as a base for syrup. The fruits are very small for a plum variety, around the 3 to 4 cm in length. The fruit ripens in half/end of August.

The plant has to flower before producing fruit obviously and it does so by giving large clusters of white flowers around the branches which give a nice picture.

The leaves are large for a Prunus species and fall in winter. The domestica species probably have their origin in the Kaukasus. The hundred varieties, among them the Reine Claude, probably have their origin in the 17th and 18th century where they where made by botanists.

Winter hardness zone 6a (-24ºC).