@Vincent_8B you are correct about where Brookgold’s name comes from. I am an hours drive south of Brooks. They “released” both Brookgold and Brookred as “Japanese” plums. Brookred has long been discounted as a hybrid. Brookgold not so much so. Most of our “Japanese plums” on the Canadian Prairies come from a bunch of imported seeds in the 1930’s. Think Ptitsin and Ivanovka. It is said they came from Manchuria - north east China. I once read an article that said they came from the permafrost of south east Russia. Think Kamchatka on the old risk board. Brookgold was one of the first plum trees I planted. I harvested several crops, none of them were gold and none were pleasant to eat. They were yellow till close to harvest and then turned red in colour before being soft enough to eat. There are many versions of this story on the Canadian prairies. There are a couple who liked their red coloured brookgold. In the past @alan has questioned whether we can actually grow true Japanese plums here and he may be right. In my opinion all of the “Japanese plums” we have bred on the Canadian Prairies are not varieties because they do not remain true to type. Think Brookgold, Fofonoff, Hardygold, Sprouts Sunshine. I know a lot about growing grain and cattle. Please feel free to critique my limited knowledge of fruit trees.
I bought one from Lowes a few years ago here on the east coast. Out here the tag looks just like yours, but only says gold plum. Looks like there may be some issues with the Brooks part. Mine set some fruit this year, so maybe I will find out.
@chinook thank you do much for detailed information. It’s very interesting about this plum. Sounds like they have some different varieties with too closed names. I think I just take time and wait how it turns out on mine and will update info here. A lot Japanese plum won’t set fruit in my areas. Hopefully we have a good one . Please update the fruits this year for us. Thank again.
@Robert post pictures here and let us know how it tastes when possible please. Thank you for info Rob.
Your knowledge seems fine to me. Plum genes due to most not being self fertile, need pollen from a different tree. Which makes the genes unstable. Once you find a good seedling you propagate by cloning. Most commercial fruit trees are grafted clones on a rootstock. Sure people like to plant seeds. I do it myself! With great results too! But how your plums act is no different than any other plum. None come true to type. A few peaches do, but most also do not come true to type. Peach seedling make good rootstock. I trade plum scion all the time. At one time I had 21 different plums. I’m down to 10 or so now, maybe more? Never counted them.
So we propagate by cloning via grafting scion on rootstock. Sometimes as a whole tree, sometimes as a scaffold. I do both. All my trees have multiple cultivars. I only need a scaffold or two of any one variety. I try to have fresh fruit all growing season so want to put it examples that ripen at different times. I freeze or dehydrate any extras to get me through the winter.
Wickson- Luther Burbank named it ‘Perfection’
Later on pomologist Edward Wickson promoted it and Burbank renamed it after him.
I gotta imagine if Burbank named it Perfection it must be pretty tasty.
Beautiful fruits (after photo editing?)! How does it taste like? I have one grafted branch, hopefully will set fruits this coming spring
Kris, I believe Professor Wickson was so impressed with the new plum that Burbank renamed it. They had a mutual admiration for each other. 
Further reading… i think you are correct.
Burbank named it Perfection… Wickson promoted it in the Pacific Rural Press and lectured on it.
So Wickson was his ‘influencer’ and deserved the renaming.
I will amend my previous post.
Interesting that the cross of Wickson and Burbank is ‘Vanier’
https://fps.ucdavis.edu//treedetails.cfm?v=1620
Looks like it declined after Beauty and Santa Rosa and Duarte took favor.
Picture looks like a plum I bought at Costco. Just called “Yellow Plum”. If it’s the same one it turns orange-red when fully ripe. Stores well and nice taste.
Yes i have ‘Yellow Plum’ also from a box store, I think its probably Byron Gold?
Maybe this one?
Oops my plum is ‘Gold Plum’ i bought at Lowes.
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Prunus-Domestica-Gold-Dwarf-Tree-L4879/3633682
A fellow on FB also bought the tree and this is what his fruit looks like
Kinda makes sense that it is Byron Gold… Vaughn Nursery sold a plum a few years back and just called it Gold Plum but they changed the name to now Byron Gold.
This is the only history i can find on it.
Byrongold is an open-pollinated seedling of two breeding selections, and has Ozark Premier in its lineage. It was selected in 1976. Bred in Byron, GA, this plum is particularly well adapted to the humid Southeast.
So looks like it fits as being a Yellow Japanese plum and im in the SE so works for me.
Not much info on this forum about it.
Fair price at Bottoms Nursery
I also have the Lowes “Gold Plum”. It is a euro plum, but in another thread all of us that had it were all trying to figure out if it really was Byron Gold or not. Mine still has not fruited.
Yes i saw that thread. You said it was a euro plum because of the tag. I havent seen anyone on here post pics of the fruit yet.
There is another grower on Hobby Fruit Growers that bought his ‘Gold Plum’ in SC. And it seems to be in box stores in the SE. Fruit is ripe July 12 for them.
I made my assumption because Vaughn Nursery and CVN both list Byron Gold and i assumed that they mass produced trees for box stores. Plus the curiousity that Vaughn used to just list Byron as Gold Plum but changed it.
That’s pretty early for a euro plum begging the question of is it a euro. All of the the Lowes trees I (and others) have bought were mislabeled, so there is no way to even know if it even is the “Gold Plum”. Mine flowered last year, but did not set any fruit. Would be nice to solve the mystery.
That plum was completely mislabeled for me. Probably seedling rootstock. The fruits it produces are red fleshed and got up to 20 brix. Not Gold plum.
May have got lucky and its Ruby Sweet?
Embarassing - I replied again to this post not remembering I had commented before!
I have a Wickson plum that I planted in my Iowa Park, Texas backyard that I bought from Womack Nursery, the growers, in De Leon, TX. As I was researching what to plant here, an 85 yr old life-long resident had told me the best plum to grow here was the “yellow candy plum” - research confirmed that’s how Wickson was marketed back in the 1940s & 50s.
We lost the entire young crop 2024 in a 90mph wind storm (welcome to Texas!) - it was covered in plums. This year 2025 should be a huge harvest hopefully. The tree thrives here - just like promised. It is susceptible to Plum Curculios here in north Texas – tho even greater risk is Dicamba drift from reckless landscaper spraying.
I’ve never propagated/grafted trees before but I’m planning on trying it this year with Wickson. I believe it’s on nemaguard rootstock. Since I’m a novice to orchard trees, I was planning same rootstock unless advised otherwise. Seems to be at risk of disappearing from commercial nurseries. Happy to share cuttings in Texas spring (Feb/early March) - walk me through what to do!
Not much information about ByronGold (possibly Gold Plum) sold at box stores. Makes sense since it is adapted to the southeast.
I found a nursery catalog from 1901
WICKSON. Luther Burbank the originator of the Burbank plum, and the most noted author on plums, says of the Wickson: " Among the many thousand Japanese plums which I have fruited, this one stands pre-eminent in its rare combination of good qualities. The tree grows in vase form, sturdy and upright, yet as gracefully branched as could be desired. From the time it is half grown until a few days before ripening, the fruit is of a pearly white color, which changes to a glowing carmine, with a heavy white bloom when ripe. Stone small, flesh firm, sugary and delicious. Can be picked when hard and white, and will color and ripen almost as well as if left on the tree. A year ago I w i s convinced that this was the best of all Japan Plums and have yet no reason to change that opinion, only more than ever to ad- mire it growth, its productiveness and the rare beauty and keeping qualities of its fruit, and its size and quality…
Burbank originally named it ‘Perfection’.
Seems to bloom very early and is sketchy in late frost areas. Im going to give it a try.