Burbank plum

Burbank is a Japanese plum with deep reddish-orange skin and yellow flesh; it is almost like a small nectarine in plum form. They are excellent eaten fresh, but can be dehydrated, used for jam, or many other culinary uses.

Like other plums, Burbank has beautiful white flowers that light up your yard in spring. And like all Japanese plums, Burbank blooms a little earlier than European plums, so there is a risk that, in some locations where the spring started out hot, a particularly late frost may damaged flowers that had already opened.

Pollination:

Burbank plums require cross-pollination from a different Japanese plum (like the popular Shiro), or a hybrid Asian-native plum (like the popular Toka), or a native plum (i.e. Canada plum (Prunus nigra) or American plum (Prunus americana)). We carry some of these in our nursery. 

Parentage:

Burbank is named after the famous plant breeder Luther Burbank, and originated from a seedling plum that he imported from Japan in 1885.

References:

Burbank plum description from North Carolina State University

Burbank plum description from Arbor Day Foundation.

Images are from a Burbank tree in our own orchard.