FOOD RESOURCE COLLEGE OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SCIENCES, OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY
PRUNUS INSITITIA, BULLACE, DAMSON
Hedrick, U.P. editor. 1919. Sturtevant's Notes on Edible Plants. Report of the New York Agricultural Experiment Station for the Year 1919 II. Albany, J.B Lyon Company, State Printers. [References Available]
is a plant of Europe, Asia Minor and the Himalayas. This plum is found wild in the Caucasus and throughout Europe. The fruit is globular, black or white, of an acid taste but not unpleasant, especially when mellowed by frost; it makes a good conserve. A variety with yellow fruit is sold in the London markets under the name of the White Damson, according to Thompson. From this species has come the cultivated damson plums. The damson plum, says Targioni-Tozzetti, was introduced from the East since the day of Cato, who was born 232 B.C. The damson plum was brought into Europe, according to Michaud, by the Duke of Anjou, in the fifth crusade, 1198-1204, from a visit to Jerusalem.
