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Bryanston Gage
An excellent dessert yellow gage with larger more attractive fruit than greengage
Origin: Dorset UK,
1831
Pollination: Bryanston Gage is self-sterile and would require a pollinator to produce a crop.
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History and description of Bryanston Gage
Originally found in Lord Portman's gardens at Bryanstone in Dorset, UK c 1800 and first recorded in 1831. It is believed to be the progeny of a Greengage and a Coe's Golden Drop which were growing close by in the same garden.
Medium-large, oval-oblong fruit. Pale green skin turning primrose yellow with numerous red dots. Greenish yellow, firm, juicy flesh. Semi-clinging stone. Excellent sweet gage flavour.
Vigorous spreading tree with very large light green leaves. Only a light to moderate cropper.
Characteristics of Bryanston Gage plum and gage trees