South Dakota Plum Rootstock/Size:Native Plum Semi-Dwarf: 3-4 ft.

South Dakota Plum Rootstock/Size:Native Plum Semi-Dwarf: 3-4 ft.Overview South Dakota plum is an extremely cold hardy American plum selection valued for its toughness, dependable fruiting, and long history of use across the northern Great Plains. It produces small to medium plums with classic American plum character highly aromatic, sweet tart when fully ripe, and especially well suited for preserves, sauces, and fresh eating at peak ripeness. The tree is widely grown in cold continental climates where European

plant these trees together to improve pollination

Not to be planted east of the divide in Montana apart from the warmer microclimates in and around Billings

and no confirmed parentage has ever been identified

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and it also holds well in cold storage

Cold Hardiness: Survives -50°F or colder

For wider spacing

Ubileen grows with a fairly vigorous

with tasting evaluations assigning the cultivar a score of approximately 4

Retail listings commonly place it as zone 4

2012) explicitly states that the pods and seeds of Caragana arborescens are edible and are cultivated as a vegetable (citing Meng et al

Winter Care Tips