Not for fresh eating. Tree is hardy, small and bush-like. Self-fruitful, a reliable good cropper. The Japanese plums are the earliest blooming of the plums and cold, wet spring weather can make pollination very difficult. These plums are the least reliable bearers in our Coastal climate, but in a good year they can produce huge crops of excellent fruit.
Japanese plums are vigourous growers and fruit best on young wood.
They are best managed with relatively heavy pruning and lend themselves to being trained to an open-centered tree shape. Very juicy, tender and sweet. For best flavour pick while still firm and ripen indoors. Upright, vigourous and productive tree. Large red-purple fruit, sweet yellow flesh.