Plum Trees - Japanese & Blood Plums
Plum trees in this category come from Asian origins, rather than European, and tend to be a little more sprightly and less fully sweet. Blood plums are amongst the most popular of all plum trees grown
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Spicezee
Spicezee truly tastes like a delicious cross of a plum and a nectarine. This 'nectaplum' is a great choice for the home gardener - it is slightly acidic and loaded with sugar giving it a spicy sweet flavour. Spice Zee is a beautiful ornamental tree with a tremendous spring bloom followed by dark red leaves in the spring that mature to a rich green-red in late summer. This variety is self-fertile and very productive
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Sugar’n’Spice
Sugar'n'Spice is a cross between a nectarine and a Japanese plum. It produces a red-yellow skinned fruit with white flesh that has a sweet crisp flavour, ideal for home gardens. Ripens: Jan/Feb Pollinates with: Self fertile
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Dwarf Mariposa plum
Dwarf Mariposa plum is a brand new addition to our list this year - one of the most popular old blood plums in our list, and now grafted onto semi dwarfing rootstock, yields a dwarf plum tree of around two metres, and carries a genuine fruit load. Ripens: January Pollinates with: Santa Rosa, Satsuma, Dwarf Santa Rosa Chill hours: approx 250 hours (low)
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Dwarf Satsuma plum
Out of stock
Dwarf Satsuma plum is the dwarf form (two metres high) of maybe the most well known of all blood plums, mid season ripening in February, one of the most reliable plums in our list - crops year in year out, largest in size, rounded dark red, firm juicy flesh, described by one local nurseryman here as having a ‘satisfying clove like depth’ of flavour. Dwarf Satsuma plum is a good bearer, useful for preserving and bottling, quite self fertile on its own, only needs 300-400 winter chill hours. Ripens: February Pollinates with: Self fertile, Dwarf Mariposa, Santa Rosa Chill Hours: 300-400
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Dwarf Santa Rosa plum
Dwarf Santa Rosa plum is a dwarf form (two metre high) of the popular early plum, yellow flesh, purple red skin, cherry plum flavours, upright tree, self fertile, and one of the best pollinators for other varieties, a long time favourite, and now in a very manageably sized tree. Dwarf Plum Santa Rosa is perfect for fitting into backyard sized spaces, while still giving really good heavy yields of full sized plums. Ripens: Dec/Jan Pollinates with: Self fertile, Mariposa, Santa Rosa, Narrabeen Chill hours: approx 300 hours (low)
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Plumcot
Plumcot is a mixture of a Japanese plum and an apricot, plumcot are large fruits, apricot colour and skin type, delicious plum/apricot interior flesh Ripens: February Pollinates with: Mariposa
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Teagan Blue plum
Teagan Blue plum is a medium sized oval to round fruit, initially sports blue skin which eventually turns dark red with maturity, firm juicy yellow to orange flesh turning to red close to the skin, very sweet tasting plums Ripens: February/March Pollinate with: Santa Rosa, Showtime
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Dwarf Donsworth blood plum
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Dwarf plum Donsworth blood plum is the earliest of our blood plums, and a very good quality plum too, large, juicy and great flavour, reliable, should do well in a lot of different places, grows to two metres high and two metres wide at maturity Ripens: December Pollinate with: Santa Rosa, Mariposa
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Donsworth blood plum
The Donsworth blood plum is the earliest of our blood plums, and a very good quality plum too, large, juicy and great flavour, reliable, should do well in a lot of different places Ripens: December Pollinate with: Santa Rosa, Mariposa
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Flavour Supreme Pluot
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Flavour Supreme is an unusual and delicious fruit which is a complex cross between a plum and an apricot. The large peach-sized fruits are smooth skinned and very juicy (like a plum) and have a unique flavour, much like a blend of fruit juices. They are deliciously flavoured, yielding fruit of incomparable sweetness. This variety is of the original plum-apricot crosses and a taste test winner. This is the sweetest and most flavoursome of the pluots and that is really saying something! Pluots flower early and therefore require similar growing conditions to apricots - a warm, sheltered site in full sun. They can be trained as a fan or grown as free standing trees.
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Pluot
This is a very popular interspecific fruit - Pluot is a cross between a Japanese plum and an apricot, very attractive fruits which look like plums, but have some good apricot tang in the flavour, a favourite with many who try it
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Licola blood plum
The Licola blood plum is a small to medium size blood plum with very good sweet flavour, solid and meaty flesh with plenty of juice, ripens mid season just after Satsuma finishes, grows well with us in hot dry northern Victoria and we suspect would do well in cooler climates too (as this is where it originated) Ripens: Feb/March
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October Purple plum
October Purple is an old plum variety, with dark purple to almost black skin, small stone, yellow amber flesh which is sweet and very juicy, ripening February, pollinates with Santa Rosa, Wickson, Burbank
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Dwarf Elephant Heart plum
Dwarf plum, we get many enquiries for this plum, the Elephant Heart plum, it's a large heart shaped, purple red blood plum with a genuinely distinctive flavour, a bit like a cherry, lovely juicy plum, ripens over a long period, comes grafted onto a dwarf rootstock, to grow approx 2 metres high, with good fruit load Ripens: Dec-Feb Pollinates with: Mariposa, dwarf mariposa
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Elephant Heart plum
We get many enquiries for this plum, the Elephant Heart plum, it's a large heart shaped, purple red blood plum with a genuinely distinctive flavour, a bit like a cherry, lovely juicy plum, ripens over a long period. Ripens: Dec-Feb Pollinates with: Mariposa
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Dwarf Narrabeen plum
The Dwarf Narrabeen plum is a small willowy growing tree, bearing large red plums with firm, yellow, fine flavoured flesh, late maturing, a slipstone, and a very satisfying plum to eat, does well with us, and said to have some natural resistance to bacterial blight, manageable tree growing to approx 2 metres tall Ripens: February Pollinates with: part self fertile, Mariposa, Satsuma, Santa Rosa
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Wickson plum
Out of stock
The Wickson plum produces large heart shaped, yellow fruits with slight pink blush, yellow rich sweet flesh, little or no tartness at skin or pit, early - mid ripening, great flavour, has some self fertility and can pollinate with Santa Rosa and many other Japanese plums
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Dwarf Ruby blood plum
A sought after plum for many people, the Ruby blood plum is a late ripener, with good sized fruits and the lighter pinker kind of blood plum flesh Ripens: March Pollinate with: Satsuma, Santa Rosa, Mariposa, Narabeen,
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Little Chum
LittleChum cherry plum is a cross between a Japanese plum and a cherry, small rounded fruit, slightly elongated in shape, attractive red colour, smooth skin, flesh is golden-yellow in colour, very juicy when mature, firm texture and has a small seed, sweet, great flavour balance between the plum and cherry
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Santa Rosa plum
The Santa Rosa plum is a very popular early variety, yellow flesh, purple red skin, cherry plum flavours, upright tree, self fertile, and one of the best pollinators for other varieties, a long time favourite Ripens: January Pollinates with: Self fertile, Maripose, Ruby Blood, Showtime,Fortune Chill Hours: approx 300 (low)
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Satsuma plum
Maybe the most well known of all blood plums, the Satsuma plum is a mid season plum, largest in size, rounded dark red, firm juicy spicy flesh, described by one local nurseryman here as having a ‘satisfying clove like depth’ of flavour. The Satsuma plum is a good bearer, useful for preserving and bottling, partly self fertile and gives even bigger crops if cross pollinated. Ripens: February Pollinate with: partly self fertile, Santa Rosa, Queen Rosa, Red Ace, Narabeen, Mariposa Chill hours: 300-400