This European native plum is also known as the cherry plum or "wild" plum. All the “wild” plums of the Sierra are apparently daughters of trees introduced by Gillet and planted in the 1800’s. The delicious fruit is favored by many bird and animal species who feast upon them and spread the seeds through their scat. This beautiful tree produces copious amounts of very frost-hardy, pink-white flowers in March and April, followed by 1-2” diameter beautiful deep yellow, delicious sweet fruit in July through August. Fruit is great fresh, juiced, in sauces or as a light wine. The hardy tree is an excellent natural hedge. Sets a medium to very large crop nearly every year in 30+ years of observation. Myrobalan is also widely used as a rootstock for apricots, plums, prunes and most almonds. You can graft a wide mix of these species onto to one or more trees, creating a living fruit salad tree. It is a widely adaptable standard size rootstock, particularly adaptable to heavier soils with excellent anchorage. Shallow but vigorous root system. Tolerates wet soils. Immune to root-knot nematodes, some resistance to oak-root fungus.

The mother tree is a large, multi stemmed very productive, very healthy 100+ year young beauty growing in Humbug, a great old mining town now part of Malakoff Diggins State Historic Park at 3250’ on the San Juan Ridge, Nevada County.