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threegardeners North Augusta, ON Feb 19, 2008

When I was a kid we had a plum tree. Mom said it was there when she was a kid. It grew the sweetest, juiciest, yellow plums imaginable. Big, fat yellow plums.
I could climb out my bedroom window onto the roof and pick baskets full.

Any idea what it might have been? Zone 5a.

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LTilton Glen Ellyn, IL(Zone 5b) Feb 19, 2008

Do you remember if they were more round or more oval?

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threegardeners North Augusta, ON Feb 19, 2008

More oval I think, like an egg. Boy, that was a long time ago!!!

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Imred Anna, IL Aug 04, 2008

I have a sweet yellow plum but they are round, ping poong ball size and a little larger. They are called Shiro. Very prolific and easy.
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Dlmcgrw Colton, CA(Zone 8b) Aug 04, 2008

I have a yellow plum called "sierra". It is the best tasting of all my plums. It is not especially large and it is more or less round. It gets a little purple blush on the top when ripe. Quite a color contrast with the overall yellow color. The tree is still young and this is the first crop I let stay on the tree. That might account for the smallish size.

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scottfsmith Baltimore, MD Aug 04, 2008

Your plum sounds like either Yellow Egg or Coe's Golden Drop -- both are yellow egg-shaped plums which have been around for at least a hundred years. Shiro is a Japanese type and none of the Japanese types are oval so it must have been a European type. I have never heard of Sierra.

If you want to get one, I would get a Coe's Golden Drop since it is definitely the better-tasting of the two.

Scott

Edit: well I checked and Coe's Golden Drop is listed as hardy to zone 6 only, so it may have been Yellow Egg you had which is also the bigger of the two.

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