An early-ripening, black skin, red-flesh Japanese plum. Origin: Parlier, Calif., by D.W. Ramming, USDA–ARS. K509-78 =[(Blackamber o.p.) o.p.] made in 1988. Selected in 1992, tested as K805-12, rel. Jan. 2002. Tree: average vigor, spreading; productive, self-infertile, very early blooming, 1 week before Red Beaut. Fruit: medium large, 64 mm diameter, 133 g, oblate; skin is blue-black with mahogany shoulders; flesh dark red, firm, medium texture; cling; ripe the first to second week of June, one week after Santa Rosa.
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