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  • From: "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com>
  • To: NAFEX <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: FW: [NAFEX] UW-River Falls Professor Develops Hardy Plum   
  • Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 07:10:53 -0800

Title: FW: [NAFEX] UW-River Falls Professor Develops Hardy Plum   ??
Just got word back from Brian - the plum has not been named yet.  Still just a number.  I've asked if I can post the number.
-Lon Rombough

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Subject: [NAFEX] UW-River Falls Professor Develops Hardy Plum   


Here's a recent press release that may interest some of you.  Unfortunately, it doesn't mention the cultivar's name. -- Sam
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UW-River Falls Professor Develops Hardy Midwestern Plum  (Jan 16, 2004)

Commercial plums from California now have a hardy Midwestern cousin. University of Wisconsin-River Falls plant breeder Dr. Brian R. Smith has developed a plum cultivar that stands up to Wisconsin's winters and produces fruit to rival its sun-kissed kin.

Smith, a professor of horticulture at UW-River Falls and a state commercial fruit specialist with UW-Extension, created the new cultivar by crossing a plum variety adapted to Wisconsin's frigid winters with a Japanese dessert plum. The new hybrid yields fruit as large and tasty as any California-grown plum from the grocery store, he says, but also withstands subzero temperatures and sports a more easily managed semi-dwarf growth habit.

He hopes one day to see plums join apples, cherries, and strawberries as a commercial Wisconsin fruit crop.


  • FW: [NAFEX] UW-River Falls Professor Develops Hardy Plum   , Lon J. Rombough, 01/23/2004

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