Cultivar 476: Yellow Yosemite

Yellow Yosemite is listed as an Americana plum in this South Dakota bulletin, placing it in the native plum group discussed there. The surviving note is brief, but it shows the cultivar was known in northern Plains evaluation work rather than only as an isolated name. [S1]

The only specific historical remark here is favorable. In October 1903, H. C. Warner of Forestburg, South Dakota, wrote that it was "very good." [S1] This suggests it had a strong enough reputation to be singled out, though the page gives no fuller account of its origin, fruit quality, season, or tree habit. [S1]

This source does not give parentage, breeder, place of introduction, or a physical fruit description. It also does not give a direct hardiness statement, though its inclusion in a South Dakota bulletin on native and introduced plums shows it was being considered under northern Great Plains conditions. [S1]

Yellow Yosemite survives here more as a trace in the native plum record than as a fully described cultivar. What can be said with confidence is limited but useful: it was treated as an Americana plum and received a positive contemporary opinion in South Dakota in 1903. [S1]

Summary source basis

• S1: Plums in South Dakota

This summary currently draws chiefly from Plums in South Dakota.

Featured source descriptions

“H. C. Warner of Forestburg, South Dakota, wrote in October 1903 that Yellow Yosemite is very good.”
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Source-story quotations

• Yellow Yosemite, Americana.Plums in South Dakota, p45
• Yellow Yosemite, Americana.Plums in South Dakota, p45
• Yellow Yosemite, Americana.Plums in South Dakota, p45

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