A Gorgeous Orange Plum mottled with Red and covered in a Blue Bloom. Sweet and tasty but not too sweet - so you can eat more! Very Pleasant flavor with Crisp flesh and a cute Pointy Base. Produces Most Years. Moderate Yield but may be better when not growing out of concrete. This is the tastiest Orange Plum around! Ripens Early August in Nevada City at 2400' elevation.

We've found a few orange plums scattered around the foothills, but this Nevada City plum was the most flavorful. It is hard to say if it was a cultivated variety or seedling but the tree is quite old. Many of the seedling plums found around are crosses between crosses and its difficult to say what the genetics are. Nevada City is covered in a diverse array of both edible and ornamental plants, most of which came through Felix Gillet's Barren Hill Nursery, established in 1869. After Gillet's death in 1912, the reins of the nursery were taken over, in most part, by Charles Parsons until 1969.