Description

• Harvest: Late
• Description: Upright or slightly spreading
• Taste: Juicy and fibrous, sour or tart
• Uses: Cooking
• Background: One of the oldest of cultivated plums and all data in regard to its origin have been lost. It resembles the wild forms of its species very closely and it may have been selected from the wild. Parkinson (1629) and Gerard (1636): “The Bullesse and the Sloe tree are wilde kindes of Plums, which do vary in their kind, even as the greater and manured Plums do. Of Bullesse, some are of greater and of better taste than others