Guide to Pollinating Plum Trees plum tree

Use our easy pollination checking tool to quickly find partners for a given tree, or browse the table below.

Plums, Gages, Damsons, Mirabelles and Bullaces are closely related trees in the Group Prunus domestica, so they pollinate each other when they are in flower at the same time.
Most of them are either reliably self fertile or partially self fertile, so pollination is much less of an issue than with most other fruit trees, especially considering how likely it is that there are already some compatible plums in your neighbourhood.

Pollination groups represent flowering periods, and trees will cross pollinate with other trees in their own group and adjacent groups, e.g. a tree in Pollination Group C will cross pollinate with trees in groups B, C, and D (note that the letters can be replaced with numbers, so Group C is the same as Group 3).

For example, a tree in group C will cross-pollinate with trees in groups B, C and D.

 

Name Use Harvest
Pollination Group
Fertility Colour
Aprimira (Miracot) Dessert Aug
A / B
Self Fertile Yellow-Pink
Jeffersons Gage Dessert Late Aug
B
Non Self Fertile Green
Mirabelle Golden Sphere Dual Mid Aug
B
Partially Self Fertile Yellow
Mirabelle Ruby Dessert Late Aug
B
Partially Self Fertile Red-Purple
Belle de Louvain Culinary Aug
C
Self Fertile Purple
Coe's Golden Drop Dessert Late Sept
C
Non Self Fertile Yellow
Dennistons Superb Dessert Late Aug
C
Self Fertile Yellow
Rivers Early Prolific Culinary Late July
C
Partially Self Fertile Blue
Langley Bullace Culinary Late Sept
C
Self Fertile Blue-Black
Merryweather Damson Culinary Early Sept
C
Self Fertile Blue-Black
Opal Dessert Early Aug
C
Self Fertile Purple
Reine Claude de Bavay Gage Dessert Sept
C
Self Fertile Green-Yellow
Shepherds Bullace Culinary Oct-Nov
C
Self Fertile Green-Yellow
Victoria Dual Late Aug
C
Self Fertile Red
Willingham Gage Dual Mid Aug
C
Partially Self Fertile Green
Cambridge Gage Dual Mid August
D
Partially Self Fertile Green
Czar Culinary Early Aug
D
Self Fertile Blue
Farleigh Damson
Culinary Mid Sept
D
Self Fertile Purple-Black
King Damson Culinary Mid Sept
D
Self Fertile Purple
Old Greengage Dessert Early Sept
D
Non Self Fertile Green-Yellow
Oullins Golden Gage Dual Mid Aug
D
Partially Self Fertile Yellow
Shropshire Prune (Damson) Culinary Early Sept
D
Self Fertile Blue-Black
Marjorie's Seedling Dual Late Sept
E
Partially Self Fertile Blue
Mirabelle de Nancy Dual Late Aug
E
Partially Self Fertile Yellow

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