The fruit is a sizable, circular, and vivid red plum with fragrant, amber-colored flesh. It is densely meaty, sugary, and succulent, ripening in the middle to late part of summer. Plum ‘Fortune’ bears white blossoms during the spring season, and its pollinator is Plum ‘Santa Rosa’. Additionally, the leaves of Plum ‘Fortune’ turn yellow during the autumn months. Plum is deciduous and native to Russia, China, Taiwan, and Vietnam. Learn more about Plum. Plum ‘Fortune’ originated in 1967 at the United States Horticultural Field Station in Fresno, California, United States, was selected in 1971 by John H. Weinberger, and was released in New Zealand in the mid-1980s.