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The shoots are big & strong. Their bark is a deep red-brown that borders on 

 purple and is almost completely covered with a white epidermis on the side in the sun. 

 On the shaded side it's speckled with very tiny yellow spots. 



The buds are of average size, very pointed and make a very wide angle with the 

 branch. The stems are raised & are very broad. 



The flowers open wide. They're eleven lignes in diameter. The petals are slightly 

 longer than they are wide. The tips of the stamens are golden yellow. 



The leaves are large, elliptical, and a beautiful green. They're three inches four 

 lignes long, twenty-five lignes wide, finely denticulate on the margins & suspended on 

 stalks fourteen lignes long. 



The fruit is big, almost round, and well covered with bloom. It's eighteen lignes in 

 diameter & sixteen lignes long. Its stalk is thick, seven lignes long, and inserts into the 

 middle of quite a deep cavity. A groove dividing the fruit in half and usually not very 

 large terminates there. 



Its skin is delicate, a beautiful purple, and separates easily from the flesh. 

 Sometimes it splits open & the fruit is only the better for it. 



Its flesh is yellow, quite delicate & soft when the fruit is completely ripe. 



The juice is a little bland unless this plum tree is planted in warm & loose soil. 



The pit is only eight lignes long, seven lignes wide, and four lignes thick. It's 

 slightly rough, flattened at the end corresponding to the top of the fruit & doesn't cling to 

 the flesh at all. 



This plum is valued not only for its beauty, 



