This is the largest Myrobalan we have found. They are about 1 ½ inches across and are as sweet and juicy as can be. The mother tree produces many beautiful white flowers that bloom late, missing most rains and frost, which gives them the opportunity to produce a prolific annual crop. They are very tough trees and survive drought, pests and disease. Birds, deer and bear love them and spread their seeds throughout the forest, producing new plants with new colors and flavors. Myrobalan are commonly used as rootstocks for plums, prunes, almonds, peaches and nectarines. All of these species can be grafted to this tree to create a yummy fruit salad, all on one tree. Ripens in mid to late July at 2100'.

The grandmother trees are found in an abandoned orchard in Colfax, Placer County, probably planted in the 40's. The two grandmother trees grow 4 feet from each other and are each about 20' tall. The canopy of the two trees together is about 25' wide. Colfax, once known as Illinoistown, boomed during the construction of the intercontinental railroad of the 1860s. The pear boom of 1890s found Colfax strategically located to ship its mountain fruit along the railroad to the east, and numerous orchards were planted as a result. The Colfax Fruit Exchange, once a successful grower co-op, still stands next to the tracks in downtown Colfax.