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Last Updated Novermber 12, 2011 All material copywrite protected.
Ptitsin #12 Plum
Prunus salicina 'Ptitsin #12'
Fruit:
-3 cm (1.5 in.);
-skin is yellow green colour;
-dessert quality.
Pollination: Plant with other Asian plums such as Brookgold, Ivanovka, or Fofonoff. There are probably other good pollinizers but they have not been adequately investigated.
Tree: The other Ptitsin plums are round spreading trees with wide angled branches.
Hardy: To zone 2.
Comments: Came to the Morden Research Station in 1939 from L.V. Ptitsin of Manchuria. In the Saskatchewan Gardener, Clarence Peters lists Ptitsin #5, #9, and #10 but not #12.