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European plum
🗓 Season: August · September
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Deep purple with a dusty bloom when ripe. Flesh softens and detaches cleanly from the stone. Sweet, rich flavour. Drops to the ground when fully ripe — check beneath the tree daily.
The name of this site is "Prune Hill" -- self explanatory. Clark County used to be a major source of prunes for west coast gold prospectors more than a century ago, and the legacy lives on. The land here is a public green space (the map's satellite view shows the public trails -- the nearby homes, of course, are on private land). The prune trees remain from an orchard in the previous century; they've gone wild and aren't maintained so production is spotty. You might have to scramble some steep slopes through brush to reach a well-laden tree. (As the trees have gone feral, they're "pesticide-free" -- but this means check for worms...)
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