South Africa holds the record for the world's largest plum

South African farmers Dean and Deon Barnard have grown the world's heaviest plum, weighing 464.15 grams, Guinness World Records reported. The fruit is the size of a baseball and beats the previous record held by a Kiyo plum grown in Japan in 2021 of 109.78 grams. The Barnards' plum was grown at the Oppie Plaas Boerdery farm, where they have commercial plum orchards spanning seven hectares. "The record plum came from a commercial tree that had about 150 plums on it. I didn't make any special preparations for it to be that big," Dean said, as reported by Guinness World Records. The plum, of the Autumn Treat variety, weighed 480 grams when harvested, but moisture loss caused it to lose a few grams. Dean and Deon have been growing plums for the past eight years and had no prior knowledge of them. They also have hops, almonds and pecans, but are reportedly replacing the latter two with more plums. They also found a couple of other plums above the previous record among this year's crop, ...