Juicy Red Sweet Cherry Plum with a Very Deep Dark Delicious Cherry Flavor. Beautiful Dark Purple Red Foliage in Full Sun. These trees are famous for their drought tolerance, beautiful foliage and delicious fruit. There are hours of fun when you plant a myrobalan - plum fun! Fun to watch children play and eat fruit from it's boughs throughout the summer. These Ripened in Newcastle in July and lasted perhaps 2-3 weeks before birds and humans alike plucked them all. Our Awesome Volunteer Zeke Gluckman found these as he walked around Newcastle, looking for Plums and stumbled upon this beaut. He undoubtedly made plum preserves.Tart at first but ripens to dark red that is soft and juicy.

Newcastle was a booming Gold Rush Town known for its sprawling orchards of which you can still see scattered remnants of persimmons, pears and plums. There are many varieties of these common 'cherry plum' or myrobalan plums but this is our new favorite! Most likely Prunus cerasifera and perhaps pollinated and crossed pollinated, back and forth as plums do, maybe even with some cherry genetics because of the flavor!