What kind of plum is this?
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We've lived in the same house in Manchester for ten years, and the tree in the front garden has never born fruit. Today we noticed this:
Google Lens tells me it thinks it's a Mirabelle Plum - but that can't be right, can it? I know next to nothing about gardening, and created this account just to ask this question. But from all the pics of the fruit and leaves I can find, it's doing a good job of making me think it might be. Wikipedia says there is only one known tree growing wild in the whole of the north of England. Could there now be two?
Any thoughts?
Google Lens tells me it thinks it's a Mirabelle Plum - but that can't be right, can it? I know next to nothing about gardening, and created this account just to ask this question. But from all the pics of the fruit and leaves I can find, it's doing a good job of making me think it might be. Wikipedia says there is only one known tree growing wild in the whole of the north of England. Could there now be two?
Any thoughts?
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If you live in Derbyshire, as I do.
But then again, so does this pic of Mirabelle (I think) de Metz: https://www.frankpmatthews.com/app/uploads/2021/06/golden-sphere-3-800x800.jpg?id=89716
Our plum is smaller than it looks in the pic - maybe 3 or 4cm in diameter - much smaller than a supermarket plum.
I guess the jury is still out!