The best and juiciest purple myro plum we have found. 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 1800s. This delicious fruit is favored by many bird and animal species, who feast upon them and then 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 red/purple, delicious, sweet fruit in July through August. Fruit is great fresh, juiced, in sauces or as a light wine. Myrobalan is also widely used as a rootstock for apricots, plums, prunes, peaches, nectarines and most almonds. You can graft a wide mix of these species onto to one or more trees and create a living fruit salad tree. This species is a widely adaptable standard size rootstock, particularly adaptable to heavier soils with excellent anchorage. They have a shallow but vigorous root system, that tolerates wet soils. Immune to root-knot nematodes, and some resistance to oak-root fungus.

We have found Purple Myro plums in North San Juan, Nevada City, Grass Valley and many other places. They were planted during the Gold Rush on farmsteads because they are tough, easy to grow and produce fruit regularly without much help. They are eaten fresh, canned, juiced and fermented.