Skin and remove the pits from about five Santa Rosa plums and break up the fruit with a fork; you’ll need about one cup of mashed fruit. Cool the syrup slightly, then add the plum mixture.

When Luther Burbank released the first of his Santa Rosa plum trees to the public in 1906, do you think he dreamed that the fruit would still be giving us pleasure more than 100 years later?

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Q: From roots, I planted a Santa Rosa plum tree given to me by a Japanese family. The first year, it had leaves and flowers while living in a pot.

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Submitted by Barbara A. Hagan, Grant City3 pounds plums, preferably fresh-picked Santa Rosas ½ cup water 1 pouch Ball liquid fruit pectin 7 ½ cups sugar ½ teaspoon butter or ...

The Japanese plum is one of the parents of the Santa Rosa plum and its weeping form. Santa Rosa is susceptible to bacterial leaf spot, which mars the leaves with black angular lesions that drop ...