Does anyone know the name for these plums?

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Gourd Mesilla Park, NM Apr 16, 2006

They are yellow fruited with a tint of red or pink, the very old fashioned type bush, small, tart and small fruits. I think I read somewhere that they were cottage type plums.. anyway, I would love to purchase some if anyone knows where I can find any or direct me to a plum site.. with pictures. Thanks for any help and I am still trying to ID them through google.

edited to add: I remembered one thing about them, they were flat on one side kind of like a peach is when first forming. My grandfather grew them when I was a child, they seemed to grow wild.

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escambiaguy Atmore, AL(Zone 8b) Apr 16, 2006

Are you talking about chickasaw plum (prunus angustifolia)? There is also a mexican plum (prunus mexicana).

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junglebob Palm Bay, FL(Zone 9b) Apr 17, 2006

i have loquats...japanese plums...

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Gourd Mesilla Park, NM Apr 17, 2006

I'll check those out.. Thanks.

Antoinette

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Lucky_P Hopkinsville, KY(Zone 6b) Apr 20, 2006

Gourd,
It would be helpful if you could give us some idea where you spent your childhood eating these - particularly if they were a 'native' plum, as different parts of the country tend to have one native species predominating over others.
For example, growing up in AL, Chickasaw plum predominated, but if you'd grown up on the northeastern coast or the Great Lakes, Beach plums would be more likely.

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Gourd Mesilla Park, NM Apr 20, 2006

Hi Lucky,
Well, these were in Northern New Mexico zone 6, I believe. ALso, my grandmother at one time told me they ordered their fruit trees and such, but at that time (I was about 5 years old), that's about all I can remember. They may have been an european cultivar.

I did make a phone call yesterday to a lady here in CA that has one to try and see if she remembers the name (she's in her 90's), but the son told me the property had been sold and the he thinks that the plum tree has been pulled out..

They are small plums a little bit larger than or the size of big Bing Cherries. Yellowish with a purple tint on one side, almost the color of lemons. Will try my Aunt, maybe she will remember the name or can describe it better to me.

A.

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semesterke Two Rivers, WI Apr 24, 2006

Sounds like it could be the Yellow Plum - Lycopersicon lycopersicum

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