This round prune plum has extremely good flavor. It is Jenifer's favorite tasting plum!!! Described in the Felix Gillet taste tests as “sweet, juicy, yum”. At least 24 Brix. The skin is a striking deep purple, nearly fully covered with the “bloom”, or wild yeasts found on most prune plums. We’ve yet to definitely identify this beauty, so we’ve named it after Richie Marks, who discovered it, barely surviving in a forest near Chicago Park. His nickname is Hootie. Ripens August and into September in the shade at 2300'. Great for fresh, plum sauce, drying and probably makes great juice also.

This little known variety is propagated from one scraggly tree near Chicago Park, Nevada County @ 2300’. This tree is surviving with no human care, encroached heavily by the forest, yet still producing nice crops of wonderful fruit. Chicago Park was a famous fruit shipping district at the turn of the 20th Century, shipping pears all over the U.S., but pear blight and pear decline, two major diseases, wiped out nearly all the pears in the 50s and 60s. Plums and prunes are not affected by this disease, and these have survived for your enjoyment.