This favorite prune plum is medium size, oval in shape, with a dark blue to purple skin and freestone yellow juicy flesh, with great, very sweet flavor. Excellent for drying, fresh fruit, juice and jam. Ripens mid August to late September, location and season dependent. Best production when pollinated by French Improved or Imperial Epineuse. Small and productive, upright tree with willowy branches when laden with fruit; branches resist breakage. Sets a heavy crop with no irrigation on the grandmother trees. They bare profusely and nearly every year, despite the challenged location and climate.

Our grandmother trees are growing at an old home (1890s) garden in downtown Nevada City, less than a mile from Gillet’s Barren Hill Nursery. Nevada City was a bustling place in the late 1800s, the Queen of the Northern Mines, with much agriculture to feed the miners. We have found many Felix trees in this community, likely due to nearly 100 years of continuous nursery operation. Felix grew many of the trees and vines still thriving in and around Nevada City.