Prunus Salicina, often known as Japanese plums, are spherical and reach a diameter of around 2 inches. Their skin colour varies from yellow to red to blue and purple to black. Japanese plums, ...

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Japanese plum varieties ripen first; pluot varieties usually ripen at the end of summer. Plums and pluots can be enjoyed fresh, dried, or canned as jelly, jam or as juice.

Grafted trees will bear fruit in two to three years, while a seedling tree will take five or six years. If possible, look for named varieties such as Gold Nugget or Champagne.

As I pull into the parking area at my neighbor Chip’s house in early spring, the late afternoon sun lights up her Shiro plum tree, and I sit there, staring at its beauty. No leaves have emerged ...

1 Introduction Japanese plum (hybrids of Prunus salicina Lindl.), like other temperate fruit tree species, enters a period of dormancy in late autumn to survive at the low temperatures of winter and ...