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Blue Imperatrice
A small late season purple dessert plum
Origin: UK,
Pollination: Blue Imperatrice is self-sterile and would require a pollinator to produce a crop. Pollination partners
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History and description of Blue Imperatrice
An old variety the origins of which are somewhat confused as several varietieties of this name have existed since the 18th Century. First received at RHS Wisley, UK in 1905.Medium small, oval, dark purple fruit with a bloom. Used as a dessert variety.
No reliable information is currently available on either fertility or cropping.
Characteristics of Blue Imperatrice plum and gage trees
| Use | Dessert |
| Colour | Purple |
| Flavour | Sweet |
| Fruit size | Small |
| Picking time | |
| Season of use | L Sep |
| Tree vigour | |
| Tree habit | |
| Fruit-bearing | |
| Cropping | |
| Pollination date | 28 |
| Pollination group | E |
| Self-fertility | Self-sterile |
| Pollinators | Pollination partners |
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