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Please help identify this plum

 
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Hello all,

Thanks in advance for helping me figuring out this plum.

This tree is about 8 - 10 years old and at a friends place.  It is a canopied tree with about 12 feet of width. And may be about 10 ft tall.

They think it is a Green gage plum but the fruit colors are different than a typical Green gage. The skin is slightly thick then a regular store plum. Mostly sweet with notes of tartness.

In colorado, Zone 6 now.

It feels like a free stone. the fruit is not too clingy to the pit. Please see pics.

Thanks again.
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Welcome to Permies Ma Kavu.
It is not like any greengage I have seen.  They usually have a bright green skin with pale yellow to green flesh.
Greengages, and other gages are strictly not a true plum, being a European cultivar of Japanese plums.
The plums you show could be santarosa or mirabel.
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Thank you, Paul.

From the research I have done, I would agree with you.

I wanted to see if anybody else experienced this kind of plum before  
 
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Actually some of the seedling crosses with the original green gauge on this old homestead have those characteristics.
 
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That is so interesting.
 
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