synonyms question

[the999bbq]

Hi,

does someone now the relationship between black plum and prune noire ? Are they the same variety or different ?
A friend has black plum and says they are dry and "mealy/tarty(?)" but I never had that problem with prune noire.

Can "mealyness" be influenced by our cultivation routines or is it something inherent to some varieties indeed ?

regards, Peter

[carolyn137]

Originally Posted by the999bbq

Hi,

does someone now the relationship between black plum and prune noire ? Are they the same variety or different ?
A friend has black plum and says they are dry and "mealy/tarty(?)" but I never had that problem with prune noire.

Can "mealyness" be influenced by our cultivation routines or is it something inherent to some varieties indeed ?

regards, Peter

Since I didn't know the variety Prune Noir I looked it up last night b'c I knew of no US seed sources or SSE listings for it.

When I went to Ventmarin, the French site, and a couple of other sites in Europe I did find it and I also found that there's a Prune Rouge and a Prune Jaunne and more, which says to me that possibly someone somewhere bred them.

But since I haven't grown Prune Noir but have grown Black Plum, I really can't make any comparisons.

Mealiness is usually a function of the weather as I see it. For me the gold/red bicolors are most apt to express that, but I don't remember any specific variety always being mealy.