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The cherry plum is a popular ornamental tree for garden and landscaping use, grown for its very early flowering. Numerous cultivars have been developed, many of them selected for purple foliage, such as P. cerasifera var pissardii (Carrière) L.H. Bailey (P. 'Atropurpurea').
This region produces 15,000 tons of mirabelle plums annually, which constitutes 80% of global commercial production. [citation needed] There are two main cultivars grown for fruit production, derived from cherry plums grown in Nancy and Metz. The Metz type is smaller, less hard, and less sweet, and has no small red spots on the skin.
Generally, the cherry can be a difficult fruit tree to grow and keep alive. [12] In Europe, the first visible pest in the growing season soon after blossom (in April in western Europe) usually is the black cherry aphid ("cherry blackfly," Myzus cerasi ), which causes leaves at the tips of branches to curl, with the blackfly colonies exuding a ...
In the present day, ornamental cherry blossom trees are distributed and cultivated worldwide. [1] While flowering cherry trees were historically present in Europe, North America, and China, [2] the practice of cultivating ornamental cherry trees was centered in Japan, [3] and many of the cultivars planted worldwide, such as that of Prunus × yedoensis, [4] [5] have been developed from Japanese ...
Mirabelle (dark yellow, predominantly grown in northeast France) Victoria (yellow flesh with a red or mottled skin) Yellowgage or golden plum (similar to greengage, but yellow) In West Asia, myrobalan plum or cherry plum (Prunus cerasifera) is also widely cultivated.
Prunus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs from the family Rosaceae, which includes plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots and almonds (collectively stonefruit).The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, [4] being native to the temperate regions of North America, the neotropics of South America, and temperate and tropical regions of Eurasia and Africa, [5] There are about 340 ...
Prunus avium, commonly called wild cherry, [3] sweet cherry [3] or gean [3] is a species of cherry, a flowering plant in the rose family, Rosaceae. It is native to Eurasia and naturalized elsewhere. It is an ancestor of P. cerasus (sour cherry). All parts of the plant except for the ripe fruit are slightly toxic, containing cyanogenic glycosides.
This is a list of countries by cherry production measured in metric tonnes from the years 2016 to 2022, based on data from the Food and Agriculture Organization Corporate Statistical Database. [ 1 ] [ n 1 ] The estimated total world production for 2022 was 4,358,852 metric tonnes , increasing by 1.9% from 4,277,298 tonnes in 2021. [ 1 ]