• See also:
• Eating plums34
• Plums for cooking11
• Dual-purpose plums17

Japanese plums

Japanese plums are usually larger than European plums and have a rich sweet flavour.

• Flavor King

  

  Flavor King is a pluot (Japanese plum / apricot cross) with large sweet fruit.

  • Picking season: Late
  • Self-fertility: Not self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 1

• Methley

  

  Methley is a Japanese plum (Prunus salicina), as opposed to the more usual European plums (Prunus domestica).

  • Picking season: Early
  • Self-fertility: Self-fertile
  • Flowering group: 1

How to choose Japanese plums

The plums most commonly found year-round in supermarkets are Japanese plums, they are usually quite large and spherical, and keep well.

Japanese plum trees need a warm climate without spring frosts, and with hot summers to grow successfully. They are grown commercially in California, and Chile.

Japanese plums do not cross-pollinate with European plums. However they are grafted on the same rootstocks.