Plum, Victoria

Description

Possibly the most popular variety of plum in Britain with large, luscious, purple-red oval fruits, with juicy green-yellow flesh. This is good eaten fresh and is excellent cooked. Extremely heavy cropper even when young, but the fruit may need thinning to avoid branches breaking or the tree becoming biennial fruiting. Found in a garden in Alderton, Sussex in 1840, named after Queen Victoria and first introduced by Denyer of Brixton, London.