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Cold Hardy Plums and Cherry Hybrids: Fall Field Notes

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Field note · September 2026

Canada wild plum collection from isolated stands

Oak Summit Nursery · Southern Manitoba

Canada wild plums, collected from isolated wild stands this week. The fruit is not quite round, a bit elongated and ripens to a yellow/red on the branch and by the time they're fully red they drop. I collect these every year and grow them in the nursery to be able to just get these genetics out there, the trees are considered the best plum pollinator, and it's a bit of conservation for our native plum.