Nothing is known of the history of this plum other than that it has been
long under cultivation and that, as its name suggests, it came from
Hungary. As in the case of many of the varieties which came from Hungary
there are several strains of this plum. The variety that is known in
America as Hungarian was reported by Downing in 1876, as originating in
Belgium, a mistake, as this is known to have been widely spread for a
long time in Europe and European authorities trace it back to Hungary.
The Ungarish of Budd, the Hungarian Prune of the Pacific Coast which is
Pond Seedling, and the Date Plum, a yellow plum of Downing, all passing
under the name “Hungarian,” are distinct varieties.
Tree large, vigorous, upright-spreading, dense-topped, hardy,
productive; branches ash-gray, smooth, with few, small
lenticels; branchlets thick, long, with internodes of average
length, greenish-red changing to brownish-red, dull, sparsely
pubescent, with few, small, inconspicuous lenticels; leaf-buds
of medium size and length, conical, appressed.
Leaves drooping, folded upward, oval or obovate, one and
five-eighths inches wide, three and one-quarter inches
long, thick; upper surface dark green, rough, hairy, with a
deeply, narrowly grooved midrib; lower surface pale green,
pubescent; apex and base acute, margin serrate, eglandular or
with small brown glands; petiole nine-sixteenths inch long,
pubescent, tinged red, glandless or with one or two globose,
greenish-yellow glands usually at the base of the leaf.
Blooming season intermediate in time and length; flowers
appearing after the leaves, seven-eighths inch across, the buds
tinged yellow, changing to white on opening, not clustered but
distributed on lateral spurs, singly or in pairs; pedicels
seven-eighths inch long, very slender, pubescent, greenish;
calyx-tube green, campanulate, pubescent; calyx-lobes
narrow, acuminate, thickly pubescent on both surfaces,
glandular-serrate, reflexed; petals narrowly ovate, serrate,
converging at the base into narrow claws; anthers yellowish;
filaments seven-sixteenths inch long; pistil glabrous, equal to
the stamens in length, small, slender.
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