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[Melissa Kacalanos <mijwiz@yahoo.com>]

I have no direct experience with it, but I was curious about this plum too, 
so I did my own searching and found that 'Black Ice' is the marketing name of 
a new plum called 'Lydecker', patent here:
http://www.freepatentsonline.com/PP16621.html

Its mother is not 'Toka' (famed for flavor) but the cherry-plum 'Oka' (famed 
for hardiness.)

Melissa

--- On Sun, 5/2/10, Richard Wagner <rewagner@centurytel.net> wrote:

> From: Richard Wagner <rewagner@centurytel.net>
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Brian Smith's Black Ice Plum
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: Sunday, May 2, 2010, 10:42 AM
> I bought two of them this spring. All
> I can say about them is that they have 
> leafed out.
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "mIEKAL aND" <qazingulaza@gmail.com>
> To: "North American Fruit Explorers" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 02, 2010 7:34 AM
> Subject: [NAFEX] Brian Smith's Black Ice Plum
> 
> 
> >
> >
> > I just noticed the Jungs is selling a Toka / P Besseyi
> cross called
> > Black Ice, developed by Brian Smith at UW-River
> Falls.  Does anyone
> > have this in the ground that can say anything about
> it?
> >
> > http://www.jungseed.com/dp.asp?pID=30903
> >
> >
> > Of course, they are sold out, but seems like it might
> be a good fit
> > for wine-making.
> >
> > ~mIEKAL