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Severn Cross
A heavy cropping self-fertile variety producing attactive large yellow dessert plums.
Origin: Somerset UK, 1921
Pollination: Severn Cross is self-fertile and a pollinator is not necessary for producing a crop. Pollination partners
British-grown 
All our bare-root trees are personally hand-grafted by our Nursery Manager and grown on at our nursery in Kent. We have Defra and Plant Healthy certification.
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History and description of Severn Cross
Raised by G T Spinks at Long Ashton Research Station, Bristol, UK in 1921from a cross between Coe's Golden Drop and Giant Prune. Received an RHS Award of Merit in 1951. Was grown commercially in the UK.Very large, oval fruit. Deep golden yellow skin with a pink flush and red dots. Soft, juicy, pale yellow flesh. Sweet with good flavour. Clinging stone. Easily bruised. Fruit hangs well on the tree.
Weak growing, upright spreading tree. Very heavy cropping. Susceptible to Silver Leaf.
Characteristics of Severn Cross plum and gage trees
| Use | Dessert |
| Colour | Yellow |
| Flavour | Sweet |
| Fruit size | Large |
| Picking time | |
| Season of use | L Sep |
| Tree vigour | Small |
| Tree habit | Upright-spreading |
| Fruit-bearing | |
| Cropping | Heavy |
| Disease resistance | Silver Leaf - Susceptible |
| Pollination date | 20 |
| Pollination group | C |
| Self-fertility | Self-fertile |
| Pollinators | Pollination partners |
| Parentage | Coe's Golden Drop Giant Prune |
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