37. Coes Golden Drop
Season : Flowers April/May, Harvest from mid Sept. thru to October
Pollination : Partially self fertile, but benefitting from pollinating neighbours - Group C
Prunus domestica 'Coe's Golden Drop'
One of the best-flavoured of all English plums.
The plums are large in size, with golden yellow skin and red spots and lines.
The golden yellow flesh is juicy sweet with a very good rich ,gage-like flavour, but some balancing sharpness.
These free-stone plums are also valuable for culinary use.
Raised by Jervaise Coe, a market gardener from Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England, at the end of the 18th century. Mr Coe stated that it was seedling tree, most likely from an Old Green Gage stone pollinated by a White Magnum Bonum plum tree growing nearby.