Valor is a large dark purple late-season plum with yellow flesh, similar to Marjorie's Seedling both in colour and season, but with a sweeter flavour.
It was developed in Canada, and inherits most of its qualities from Imperial Epineuse, a dessert plum with a very sweet flavour, originating in France but mainly grown in North America. Valor's other parent is Grand Duke, introduced by the famous Rivers Nursery in the 1880s, and regarded as a good culinary plum.
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Delivery period: Pot-grown trees can be delivered from September onwards. Bare-root trees can be delivered from mid-November onwards. Within those periods you can specify your preferred month of delivery during the checkout process. It is best to order as soon as you can to ensure items are reserved for you.
*Mature heights: Height shown is the approximate height of the tree when mature (after 5-10 years), not the height when supplied. See photos of trees as supplied. Actual mature heights may vary considerably dependent on your local conditions and training and pruning regime.
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Valor is self-sterile and needs to be pollinated by another tree of a different variety nearby. Since it flowers in the middle of the blossom season it can be pollinated by most other plum trees.
Our online pollination checker lists suitable pollination partners for this variety.
More advice about pollination.
Valor is a productive and vigorous plum tree, which ripens late in the season (mid-late September). It is self-fertile.
The flesh falls away from the stone when ripe (freestone).
Planting instructions.
Pruning instructions.
Vineland Research Institute, Ontario, Canada, 1968. The parents are Imperial Epineuse and Grand Duke.
