Early Italian

This classic European variety bears abundant crops of juicy and sweet, Purple blue plums. The large size fruit are very high in Vitamin C. Also rated very high for sauces and canning. The plum for drying into prunes!  It is a naturally small tree, self fruitful but may get the best yields with another variety of European plum. Early Italian is easy to grow and is the earliest to ripen of the European Plums we offer.