Greengage

Greengage

The greengages are a group of cultivars of the common European plum. The first true greengage came from a green-fruited wild plum

(Persian: گوجه‌ سبز trans. Gojeh Sabz) originally found in Iran (Persia); that original greengage cultivar nowadays survives in an almost unchanged form as the cultivar Reine Claude Verte.[citation needed]

The Oxford English Dictionary regards "gage" and "greengage" as synonyms.[2] However, not all gages are green, and some horticulturists make a distinction between the two words, with greengages as a variety of the gages, scientifically named Prunus domestica subsp. italica var. claudiana.[3][4] The gages (P. d. ssp. italica) otherwise include the large and usually purple to blackish but occasionally bright yellow round plums (var. subrotunda, e.g. the Ontario plum), as well as the ancient and little-known Austrian varieties Punze (var. rotunda) and Weinkriech (var. vinaria).

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