I spot the first purple fruits on the ground lying amongst the leaf litter. Plums! Known as Davidson or Mullumbimby plums (Davidsonia jerseyana) they are an Australian bush tucker food and are really sour. They are not in the Prunus genus with the other plums we know.
I look up and along the main stems of the three plants are clusters of green fruit. A bumper crop. I noticed the flowering earlier, a week or so ago or was it a month? The fruit seem to have appeared so soon. Now every time I walk down the path there are more purple balls lying there. There seems to be no half way point between green unripe and on the tree and purple ripe and on the ground. I collect them and freeze them and will cook them up later at the end of the season like I did with last year’s crop.
