Scarlet Beauty Plum Tree
This cultivar requires a low chill time of 150 hours to produce fruit.
Scarlet beauty plum tree. Gulf Beauty Plum Tree Low Chill Tropical Plums. Scarlet Beauty is a Japanese plum developed in Florida. Florida nurseries may sell other varieties such as Scarlet Beauty.
This is a Japanese-style Gulf Series plum. It is heat tolerant and mildly drought tolerant. Needs only 150 chill hours.
Scarlet Beauty Plum Low Chill Tropical Plums. Buy Perfect Plants Scarlet Beauty Plum Tree 5 gal. Fruit ripens in May.
Fruit is attractive and overall quality is good. Water the tree thoroughly for the first few years to establish a good root system. Scarlet Beauty is a very low-chill variety and even during the mild 2019 winter the tree set fruit heavily.
Low in its need for chill hours tolerant to heat and drought and even self-pollinating the Scarlett Beauty is the perfect southern plum tree. The Scarlet Beauty Plum Tree has all the characteristics of an ideal fruit bearing plant. Your Beauty Plum tree provides a delicious harvest of tasty treats earlier than many other plum varieties.
Developed by plant breeder Ronald Lambert of Wachula FL this Prunus salicina cultivar is a low-chill Japanese-style plum tree that makes an excellent fruit cultivar for even south Florida. Generally this is a sweet-slightly-tart fruit. Considered to be self fertile however we recommend another Plum Tree for Pollination.
