🌳 LAVINA CHUM CHERRY PLUM

🔹 Identification

• Botanical name: Prunus cerasifera × Prunus salicina

• Cultivar name: ‘Lavina’

• Synonym: Avalanche

• Origin: Lithuania

• Type: Hybrid cherry plum (Japanese plum × myrobalan plum)

• Selection: Developed from the cultivar Skoroplodnaya.

🌳 Tree

• Vigour: Very strong

• Habit: Spreading to upright

• Flowering: Early

• Time to bearing: Relatively quick

• Production: Abundant and regular

• Hardiness: Zone 4

• Special feature: A very vigorous tree requiring regular pruning.

🍑 Fruit

• Size: Small to medium (about 30 g)

• Colour: Golden yellow with a beautiful pinkish-red blush.

• Flesh: Amber to golden yellow.

• Texture: Firm, juicy and fleshy.

• Flavour: Very sweet, rich and aromatic.

• Aromas: Notes of caramel and papaya.

• Stone: Nearly freestone (semi-clingstone).

• Skin: Slightly tart.

📅 Harvest and storage

• Harvest: Late August to mid-September, depending on the region.

• Ripening: Early to mid-season.

• Storage: Less than a month in a cool place.

• Uses: Fresh eating, jams, pies and preserves.

🌸 Pollination

• Self-fertility: Not self-fertile.

• Requires another compatible plum tree.

• Suggested pollinizers:

  • Toka

  • Obilnaja (Obilinaja)

  • Other Japanese plums or cherry plums with compatible flowering periods.

🌱 Growing conditions

• Exposure: Full sun to partial shade.

• Soil: Fertile and well drained.

• Watering: Regular during establishment.

• Pruning: Regularly to control its strong vigour.

• Thinning: Recommended to encourage good fruit size.

• Resistance: Good resistance to black knot and cherry leaf spot.

⭐ Highlights

• Excellent sweet, aromatic flavour.

• Highly ornamental golden-yellow fruit.

• Amber, firm and juicy flesh.

• Good hardiness for a hybrid plum.

• Abundant, regular production.

• Suitable for regions with cold winters.

⚠️ Points to consider

• Requires a compatible pollinizer.

• Very vigorous growth.

• Pruning and thinning are necessary.

• Early flowering may be exposed to spring frosts.

🌿 Garden interest

Lavina is a remarkable hybrid plum tree producing beautiful small, golden-yellow fruit with a red blush. Its very sweet amber flesh, scented with notes of caramel and papaya, makes it especially appealing for fresh eating. Its zone 4 hardiness is an asset in cold regions.