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Japanese plum
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Noun1.Japanese plum - small tree of China and Japan bearing large yellow to red plums usually somewhat inferior to European plums in flavor
plum, plum tree - any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single hard stone
2.Japanese plum - evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stoneJapanese plum - evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan
loquat, Japanese plum - yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies
Eriobotrya, genus Eriobotrya - Asiatic evergreen fruit trees
fruit tree - tree bearing edible fruit
3.Japanese plum - yellow olive-sized semitropical fruit with a large free stone and relatively little flesh; used for jellies
edible fruit - edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh
Eriobotrya japonica, Japanese medlar, loquat, loquat tree, Japanese plum - evergreen tree of warm regions having fuzzy yellow olive-sized fruit with a large free stone; native to China and Japan


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The Japanese plums grew in many colors in skin from white to purple, were large and rather tasteless, but the Japanese natives ate them while green and hard.
But Japan is much more flexible about brewing beer and has experimented with brewing ''happoshu'' low-malt beer using sweet potatoes, bananas, black soybeans and Japanese plums.
Japanese plums have a yellow to red, never purple, skin and a yellow to dark red, very sweet flesh.
 
 
 
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