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Small tree Prunus institia italica, family Rosaceae, native to West Asia. Its sweet-flavoured fruit is a kind of plum, small, round, and green when ripe. It is grown as a dessert fruit and for jam-making.

It is less hardy than some plums, and requires shelter and a good deal of care in cultivation. It is named after Thomas Gage, who introduced it to England about 1725.



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Reine Claude, as they are known in France, are a variety of plum that are known for their rich sweet flavour that causes them to be considered as one of the finest dessert plums with green skin sometimes tinged with yellow, red or purple.
 
 
 
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