Other ‘Plums’

Appears in
Oxford Companion to Food

By Alan Davidson

Published 2014

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Brazil, Hog, Jew, and Spanish plum are all names for the ambarella and related species. Java plum and Malabar plum are fruits of the genus Eugenia. Date plum is an alternative name for the persimmon.

See also davidson’s plum; and for Governor’s plum see ramontchi; lovi-lovi; rukam.

Japanese ‘pickled plums’ are really a kind of apricot (see umeboshi), not connected with the species P. salicina, although that is often referred to as Japanese plum.