Orange Pippin logo
All about apples, pears, plums, and cherries - and orchards where they are grown

Compare fruit varieties

Go to the variety pages you are interested and click the 'Compare' link to add them to this comparison table.



Plum
Early Prolific 

 

 

 

 
SummaryWidely known as River's Early Prolific or Early Rivers after the Hertfordshire nusery where it was raised, as the name suggests, early and prolific!




Identification

Early Prolific




Fruit colourPurple




Flesh colour




Fruit size




Fruit shapeOval / round




Using

Early Prolific




FlavorGood




Flavour styleSweeter




Ripening periodMid season




Use/Keeping1-3 days




Cooking result




Growing

Early Prolific




Picking




CroppingHeavy




VigourAverage growth




PollinationFlowering group 2
Flowers Mid season
Self-fertile
Gardening skillVery easy




Problems

Other

Early Prolific




Country of originUnited Kingdom




Other qualities