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Simka Japanese Plum
Prunus salicina 'Simka'
- Summary
- Hardiness Zone & More
The Simka plum has large, uniform, purplish-red fruit with very firm, sweet, yellowish-white flesh. It ripens 5-7 days before Friar plum and seems to keep well on the tree for a couple weeks.
Simka was a chance discovery made in California and introduced in 1959. It was once called Sim-Ka Rose.
Simka requires a pollinator like all Japanese plums. It is vigorous, but retains a medium size tree. Expect it to drop some fruit throughout the season as it is partially self-thinning, but is still productive.
- Height
- 12-15
- Spread
- 10-12
- Zone
- 5-8
- Color
- Reddish-purple
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- Plum - Japanese Varieties,
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