Early Italian plum
Early Italian is very similar to the classic Italian prune plum, but ripens 1-2 weeks earlier. The tree makes gorgeous flowers in spring, and the fruit’s skin is a beautiful deep purple, with amber/golden flesh when ripe. The plums are freestone (the flesh separates easily from the pit).
These are great eaten fresh, and make excellent dried plums (prunes has a somewhat undesirable connotation among some people, but let me tell you, dried plums from your own plum tree is a real nice treat and makes a great part of snack mixes all year long). Early Italian plums also work well for canning, and plum butter.
Disease resistance:
Moderate resistance to black knot.
Pollination:
Most European plums are self-fertile, however I cannot find any support for this variety being either self-fertile or self-infertile in the academic/professional literature. It is likely that it is at least partially self-fertile, like almost every other European plum. As with all self-fertile trees, they are said to fruit better with a compatible pollination partner nearby.
References:
Images are from my Blue Italian plum tree.