California give rise over 90 percentage ofall plumsgrown in the United States . concord to the University of California Davis , approximately 250 variety of plums grow here . These varieties are divided into two main categories : Nipponese and European . The plum , a member of the rose family , spring up in China , but was tame in Japan about 400 years ago to become the Japanese variety we know today . In California , plum are an important sweet fruit crop .

Yellow Plums

The Shiro is a Japanese type plum favored by California growers . It is one of several varieties of xanthous plum tree that are found in California grove . temperate in size , its yellow tegument is blushed with pinkish . The pulp is juicy and odoriferous , but tart at the pit . Although many plum are freestone , this is a clingstone plum . According to Jim Kratz at Tuscola Conservation District ’s U. S. Department of Agriculture Service Center , the Shiro plum is one of the good plums usable . Other yellow plum admit the Early Golden — an extremely sweet and racy variety — the Golden Nectar and the Mirabelle . The Mirabelle is a small European - type plum tree . The skin is jaundiced and curt , the bod sweet and juicy . The Mirabelle is also a favorite in California .

The Santa Rosa plum is an one-time sales booth - by and a favorite of California growers . Luther Burbank developed this superior plum in 1906 from unexampled Japanese cultivars . He named the plum tree in honor of his gardens in Santa Rosa , California . A shiny , crimson red plum , the Santa Rosa makes up 30 percent of the country ’s total plum tree craw . Other still - democratic previous variety are the Damson and the Old English Greengage , both are European variety . The Damson ’s origination is the Black Sea area . A sourish fruit , it is better for cooking and continue than to corrode out of hand . The Greengage is a fat , sweet fruit .

Varieties of Black Plums

There a several varieties of black plums . Among them are the Friar , the Black Beauty and the Black Splendor . The Friar is an older but still pop black plum . Friars are a dessert plum , good eaten out of hired man . The physical body is creamy chicken and fairly unfluctuating , the pit is small . Its cutis is smooth and glazed . When fully ripe , the Friar is a deep black in colour . The Black Beauty is also a dear - caliber plum . Its slightly flabby pulp is amber ting with red . The skin is purple - black when ripe . A fairly Modern salmagundi , the Black Splendor is vainglorious , cherubic and very toothsome . It has black skin with a hint of mahogany at the berm . The flesh is beet red . harmonize to the USDA Agricultural Research Service , the Black Splendor plum is an early variety , dominate the early time of year ’s higher Leontyne Price , but for its excellent feel the surplus price is tokenish .

The Prune Plum

Growers are constantly try out with fresh varieties , but few of these plum are deemed viable for marketing — the California ameliorate Gallic prune - plum being an exception . This newer variety of the European ( French ) plum is far ranking to other prune - plums . They are sweet — a essential for fruit used for drying — and more disease resistant than many other plums . The Improved French is presently the most pop prune - plum of California agriculturalist . It occupies 98 pct of the total dried - plum tree land area in the country . According to researchers at University of California at Davis , a newfangled cultivar , the Honey Sweet , is even more disease insubordinate , and very cherubic , but it is a fresh - market plum , not suitable for California dried - plum production .

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