Tags: Cultivar (Cultivated Variety).

‘Climax’ is a Prunus cultivar considered to be a plum. It was introduced in 1899 by plant breeder Luther Burbank.Burbank devoted a lot or work to hybridizing two plum species the apricot plum or Simon plum Prunus simonii and the Japanese plum Prunus salicina. He developed a number of cultivars from the hybrid of which ‘Climax’ was particularly notable for its importance to the fruit shipping industry of California.

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