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. Pollination partners

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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

Use	Dessert
Colour	Yellow
Flavour	Sweet
Fruit size	Medium
Picking time
Season of use	L Aug
Tree vigour	Vigorous
Tree habit	Spreading
Fruit-bearing
Cropping	Light
Pollination date	19
Pollination group	C
Self-fertility	Self-sterile
Pollinators	Pollination partners
Parentage	Coe's Golden Drop Old Greengage