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Field note · August 2025

sapa cherry plum

Oak Summit Nursery · Southern Manitoba

sapa cherry plum. one of the OG chums from 1908 in the same wave as Opata. Sapa means black. sand cherry x japanese plum. flesh is sweet and tastey, reminds me of a really good sand cherry, which if you haven't had is cherry/plum the way a chokecherry is. the skin has some zing to it like a wild plum, but I think the balance is good. I would prefer to eat them over pembina. very similar to sapalta and mustang, probably sapalata improved on the flavour of the skin, and size.

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