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Prunus americana, commonly called the American plum, [7] wild plum, or Marshall's large yellow sweet plum, is a species of Prunus native to North America from Saskatchewan and Idaho south to New Mexico and east to Québec, Maine and Florida. [8] Prunus americana has often been planted outside its native range and sometimes escapes cultivation. [9]
Plums may get overlooked for flashier summer fruits, but they provide benefits and healthy nutrients to aid your heart, gut and bones, dietitians say. Yes, plums help you poop. But they have other ...
The refuse pits were thought to have first been storage pits that were converted into refuse pits once their contents began to sour. They contained animal bone, charcoal and artifacts. The roasting pits appear to correspond to what has ethnographically been described as “macoupin roasting pits” by the early French explorers Deliette and ...
A prune is a dried plum, most commonly from the European plum (Prunus domestica) tree.Not all plum species or varieties can be dried into prunes. [3] A prune is the firm-fleshed fruit (plum) of Prunus domestica varieties that have a high soluble solids content, and do not ferment during drying. [4]
Plum remains have been found in Neolithic age archaeological sites along with olives, grapes and figs. [4] [5] According to Ken Albala, plums originated in Iran. [6] They were brought to Britain from Asia. [7] An article on plum tree cultivation in Andalusia (southern Spain) appears in Ibn al-'Awwam's 12th-century agricultural work, Book on ...
Prunus cerasifera is a species of plum known by the common names cherry plum and myrobalan plum. [3] It is native to Southeast Europe [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and Western Asia , [ 3 ] [ 7 ] and is naturalised in the British Isles [ 4 ] and scattered locations in North America.
The Kincaid Mounds Historic Site (11MX2-11; 11PO2-10) [3] c. 1050–1400 CE, [4] is a Mississippian culture archaeological site located at the southern tip of present-day U.S. state of Illinois, along the Ohio River.
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