Evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan.
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prunus salicina Small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor.
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The American wild plum crosses readily with almost any other plum and particularly well with the Japanese plum.
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Here and there one sees the guava, the Japanese persimmon, Japanese plum, or some similar exotic-butgrapes and oranges are the principal product.
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We studied fruit ripening in two Japanese plum cultivars, the climacteric Santa Rosa (SR) and its non-climacteric bud sport mutant, Sweet Miriam (SM).
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This is notably the case with many Japanese plums, which, if not thinned, are very inferior.
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But they're to stay there until some of those black-gum trees begin to glut the market with yellow clings and Japanese plums.
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My first experience with Japanese plums convinced me that I had solved the plum problem; they bore loads of fruit, and were free from disease.