Description

• Harvest: Mid
• Description: Large round fruit
• Skin: Dull green or pale yellow with white spots and occasionally red spots
• Flesh: Deep yellow
• Pollination: Grand Duke and Jefferson
• Taste: Soft very sweet juicy flesh with a rich, sweet gage flavour
• Uses: Eating, preserves and making spirits & liqueurs
• Background: Originated by Major Esperens at Malines, Belgium 1832 from an open pollinated Greengage. Named Bavay in honour of the Director of the Horticultural Station at Vilvoorde. Brought to England by Thomas Rivers c 1846