Coe's Golden Drop

Plum

Size

Large - larger than a typical Green Gage

Shape

Oval

Flavor

Intensely sweet, apricot-like, balanced by acidity inherited from its White Magnum parent

Texture

Very juicy

Ripening window

Late season (September)

Best uses

Fresh dessert eating

Pollination

Not self-fertile - requires another European plum variety with overlapping bloom

Tree size

12-16 ft on Mariana semi-dwarf rootstock

Notes

Gage-type European plum (Prunus domestica, a Green Gage x White Magnum cross) bred by gardener Jervaise Coe in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, England, raised from seed in 1809. Zones 5-9. No explicit chill-hour or disease-resistance data found for this specific variety; given its English/cool-climate heritage (like the other gage-type plums in this collection), it likely carries a nontrivial chill requirement and possible brown rot risk in humid Texas summers, but this isn't confirmed directly by a source. Originally grouped as an unidentified/"Other" pin in your source data - the name didn't contain the word "Plum" so it was missed by the initial category parser; reclassified here into stone_fruit alongside the other plum-family varieties.