Description
Produces beautiful, pinkish white spring blooms and delicious fruit. This mid season, fresh eating Japanese Plum ripens late July to early Aug and is also good for ornamental, canning & cooking. The fruit is sweet, slightly tart, large, firm & good quality with deep purple red skin light yellow fine-textured clingstone flesh. Tree requires 500 chill hours, is partially self-fertile and is precocious. Commercial production is rare. It was introduced in 1906 by Luther Burbank at his home in Santa Rosa. USDA Hardiness Zones: 5-9.
Japanese Plum species description: USDA Hardiness Zones: 5-8. Plums do great in the Pacific Northwest.
| SKU: | PM72 |
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| Variety: | Santa Rosa |
| Common Name: | Japanese Plum |
| Latin Name: | Prunus salicina |
| Family: | Rosaceae |
| Characteristics: | fresh, ornamental, canning, cooking |
| Chill Hours: | 500 |
| Pollination: | partially self-fertile |
| Other Common Names: | Chinese Plum, Asian Plum |
| Origin: | 1906 by Luther Burbank at his home in Santa Rosa |
| Lifecycle: | Perennial |
| Leaf Drop: | Deciduous |
| Forest Layer: | Understory Tree |
| Food Type: | Fruit Tree |
| Height: | 15ft |
| Width: | 15ft |
| Hardiness: | 5-9 |
| Soil PH: | 6-7.5 |
| Soil Type: | Sand, Loam, Clay, Heavy Clay |
| Flower Type: | Hermaphroditic |
| Fruit: | sweet, slightly tart, large, firm, good quality deep purple red skin light yellow fine-textured clingstone flesh |
| Season (Ripening): | mid (late July to early Aug) |
| Production: | precocious. Commercial production is rare. |
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