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 purposes, 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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