Le pruneau d’Agen, toute une histoire
The Agen prune came from China via the Silk Road. It was the monks of the Abbey of Clairac (near Agen in southwestern France) who hybridized local plum trees with Damascus plum plants brought back from Syria, giving birth to a new variety of plum tree called "prunier d'Ente" (in old French "Ente" means "to graft"). By drying the fruits of this tree in the sun, they obtained the first Agen prunes. An Ente plum tree produces about 25kg of prunes per tree.
