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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 22 November 2024. Edible fruit For other uses, see Plum (disambiguation). "Plumtree" redirects here. For the Canadian band, see Plumtree (band). For other uses, see Plumtree (disambiguation). African Rose plums (Japanese or Chinese plum). A plum is a fruit of some species in Prunus subg. Prunus. Dried ...
The damson (/ ˈ d æ m z ə n /) or damson plum (Prunus domestica subsp. insititia, or sometimes Prunus insititia), [1] also archaically called the "damascene", [2] is an edible drupaceous fruit, a subspecies of the plum tree.
Prunus domestica is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. A deciduous tree, it includes many varieties of the fruit trees known as plums in English, though not all plums belong to this species. The greengages and damsons also belong to subspecies of P. domestica.
Flacourtia inermis, known commonly as lovi-lovi, or batoko plum, is a species of flowering plant native to the Philippines and Indonesia, but which has naturalized around the edges of tropical Asia and Africa. [1] Common names in Indonesia include tome-tome (Ternate, North Maluku), lovi-lovi, and lobi-lobi.
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]
It bears edible fruit similar to those of the damson, and like the damson is considered to be a strain of the insititia subspecies of Prunus domestica. Although the term has regionally been applied to several different kinds of "wild plum" found in the United Kingdom , it is usually taken to refer to varieties with a spherical shape, as opposed ...
Flacourtia indica (known commonly as ramontchi, governor's plum and Indian plum), is a species of flowering plant native to much of Africa and tropical and temperate parts of Asia. It has various uses, including folk medicine, fuel, animal food and human food.
Flacourtia jangomas, or also known as the Indian coffee plum, Indian plum, [2]: 73 or scramberry, is a lowland and mountain rain forest tree in the family Salicaceae. [3] [4] It was once placed in the Flacourtiaceae family. [2] It is widely cultivated in Southeast and East Asia, and has escaped cultivation in a number of places. [5]