Japanese plumvariety
Honey Beat
Also known as ハニービート +1
ハニービート · スモモ筑波6号
Honey Beat crosses breeding line PP-26-6 (from Soldam and Ozark Premier) with Taiyo. It has red-purple skin, yellow flesh and low acidity; its name pairs honey-like sweetness with reduced black-spot occurrence, not immunity, compared with other major varieties.
Origin · 茨城県つくば市
Taste & texture
- Flavour
- high sweetness and low acidity
How to spot it

- Skin
- red-purple
- Flesh
- yellow
Origin & family
Where Honey Beat began
Recorded origin
茨城県つくば市
Japan
- Crossed
- 2001
Honey Beat’s family
3 varieties · 2 recorded linksArrows follow parents → children
This variety
Honey Beat
茨城県つくば市, Japan
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Field notes
Original source notes
variety observations
- traits
- taste
- high sweetness and low acidity
- fertility
- self-incompatible; a compatible pollinizer is needed
- skin colour
- red-purple
- flesh colour
- yellow
- source url
- www.naro.go.jp ↗
- observation scope
- official cultivar description not universal composition or consumer tasting