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Santa Rosa Plum

Prunus salicina 'Santa Rosa' · Rosaceae

A widely grown Japanese plum with reddish-purple skin and sweet-tart amber flesh, good fresh or cooked. Largely self-fertile and an excellent pollinator for other Japanese plums, cropping in mid-summer.

At a glance

  • Habit
    Fruit Tree
  • Light
    Full Sun
  • Water
    Moderate Water
  • Soil
    Well-Drained, Loam
  • Climate
    Warm Temperate, Cool Temperate, Mediterranean
  • Frost
    Frost-Hardy
  • Mature size
    4.5 m H × 4 m W
  • Foliage
    Deciduous
  • Flowering
    Spring Flowering
  • Growth rate
    Fast-Growing
  • Maintenance
    Moderate Maintenance

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