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Yellow Egg Plum on Myrobalan (Spring 2025)
A yellow European plum prized for baking and preserves. Also known as Pershore Egg, Yellow Pershore.
This tree is partially self-fertile, but significantly better crops will be obtained when it is paired with another European plum. Productive, cold hardy, and disease resistant, this tree is very grower friendly.
The fruit is large and egg shaped, with yellow flesh and yellow skin. Though traditionally used for baking and preserves, Golden Egg is also a great fresh-eating plum when fully ripened on the tree.
Yellow Egg's alternative name, "Yellow Pershore" refers to the town of Pershore, Worcestershire, which has been renowned for plum production since the medieval era. The Pershore Yellow Egg was found growing wild in Tiddesley Wood on the outskirts of the town in the early 19th century, and by 1870 the plum was being grown commercially in large quantities. Today the town of Pershore hosts an annual Plum Festival, or Plum Fayre, which celebrates not just the Yellow Pershore, but also the Purple Pershore and a number of other varieties cultivated in the area.
Images from USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection, Special Collections, National Agricultural Library, Beltsville, Maryland.
The Fruit
Fruit Type
Category: Plum
Subcategory:
European
Fruit Uses & Storage
Uses: fresh eating, jam, baking, canning
Storage duration: less than one month (approximate, depending on storage conditions)
Fruit Appearance
Skin color: yellow
Flesh color: yellow
Fruit Origins
Parentage: unknown
Origin: Worcestershire, England
Introduced in: 1800's
Introduced by: unknown
The Environment
Calendar & Geography
USDA zones: 4 - 8
Chill hours: Not yet determined
Ripening date: Aug 25 (approximate, in New York State) 7 days before Stanley
Tree Height & Spacing
glossary
Rootstock: Myrobalan Rootstock
Rootstock size class: Standard (100% Size)
Tree spacing: See details
Good for wildlife planting? N
Diseases & Pests
glossary
Bacterial Canker of Stone Fruit: Resistant
Pollination
Pollination Factors
glossary
Bloom group: 5
Is it self-fertile? Partial
Is it fertile? Y
Rootstock size class:
Standard (100% Size)
Pollination Partners
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