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The flowers are white or pinkish, 2 cm across, [2] appearing in the spring in clusters of one to seven together. The fruit is a small, plum-like drupe, variable in appearance, 15–25 mm (5 ⁄ 8 –1 in) in length, and may be red or yellow; they mature in late summer. The plums are small and tart.
Pellier Park, is a city park covering 0.5 acres (0.20 ha) in San Jose, California, United States, located in close proximity to San Pedro Square. [3] This park holds historical significance as it was once home to City Gardens, a nursery founded by Louis Pellier (1817–1872), who is known as the pioneer of California's prune industry.
These spreading trees or shrubs may grow 5 to 8 meters in height with smooth, light-grey bark and have a thick, succulent trunk that can reach 2 ⁄ 3 m in diameter. [2] Plants on sand dunes may grow in a prostrate habit. The leaves are pinnately compound, and 4 to 10 cm long, composed of 7 to 11 ovate or elliptic shaped leaflets.
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]
Over the course of about five years the tree accumulated branches from forty different "donor" trees, each with a different fruit, including almond, apricot, cherry, nectarine, peach and plum varieties. [3] A Tree of 40 Fruit fruiting in the artist's nursery. Each spring the tree's blossom is a mix of different shades of red, pink and white. [3]
The Chinese celebrated the pine, bamboo and plum together, for they observed that unlike many other plants these plants do not wither as the cold days deepen into the winter season. [2] Known by the Chinese as the Three Friends of Winter , they later entered the conventions of Korean, Japanese, and Vietnamese culture.
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.
Oemleria cerasiformis, a shrub commonly known as osoberry, [6] squaw plum, [7] Indian plum, [8] or Indian Peach, [9] is the sole extant species in genus Oemleria. [10] The deciduous and perennial osoberry is one of the first plants to have its flowers bloom and leaves bud in the late winter. [ 9 ]