Sugar Prune Plum

Strong grower with vertical shape. Old-fashioned biennial producer giving bumper crop every other year with smaller yield in between. Medium-sized tree. Self-fertile.

Medium-sized prune-plum fruit. Reddish-purple skin, greenish-yellow to golden interior flesh when dried. Dense very rich and sweet flesh. Maintains some of highest sugar contents of any plum. Freestone. Self-fertile. Long harvest season.

Remains at top of most-loved plum lists every year despite being one of oldest in cultivation. "Muir Beauty" is improved sugar prune form released 2004 bred to increase diversity of drying plum characteristics.