Description

The Santa Rosa Plum is the quintessential California plum and a benchmark for home orchards worldwide. This incredibly popular, self-fertile variety is vigorous, disease-resistant, and produces abundant crops of medium-sized fruit with purple-red skin and tangy-sweet, amber flesh. Its vibrant flavor—a perfect blend of sweetness and tartness—is excellent fresh, cooked, or dried. As an outstanding pollinator for other plums, Santa Rosa is often the cornerstone of a productive home fruit garden.

• The most widely planted Japanese plum variety, known for its vigor and reliability.

• Self-pollinating and an excellent pollenizer for many other plum and pluot varieties.

• Flavor is the classic tangy-sweet balance that defines a great plum.

• Fruit has purple-red skin and juicy, amber-red clingstone flesh.

• Blooms with pink-white flowers in spring.

Flavor Profile:

• Flavor: Perfectly balanced—vibrantly sweet with a sharp, refreshing tartness.

• Texture: Firm and very juicy.

• Best Uses: The ultimate all-purpose plum. Superb for fresh eating, baking, jams, jellies, and drying into prunes.

• A hardy, disease-resistant tree with an upright growth habit, excellent for home gardens.