Purplish-black, melting, clingstone Japanese plum with excellent shipping and keeping quality. Origin: B Q Genetics, Le Grand, CA, by L.G. Bradford and J.M. Quisenberry. Plumsweet VIII × pollen mix. USPP 30,184; 12 Feb. 2019. Tree: size medium; vigorous; growth habit spreading; dense; very productive; flowers white, self-incompatible; requires cross-pollination by mid-to late-season plum or interspecific, such as Plumsweet XV interspecific tree; blooms 17 Feb. to 1 March; leaf glands medium, globose. Fruit: very large, 239 g; oblate; uniform; skin purplish black with heavy, small, yellow freckling; flesh color pale greenish-yellow; firm; crisp; meaty; juicy; very sweet, 18-21 °Brix; ripens 5-25 Sept. in San Joaquin Valley, California.
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