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Prunus × cistena (purple leaf sand cherry), a hybrid of Prunus cerasifera and Prunus pumila, the sand cherry, also won the Award of Garden Merit. [16] [17] [18] These purple-foliage forms (often called 'purple-leaf plum'), also have dark purple fruit, which make an attractive, intensely coloured jam. They can have white or pink flowers.
Original - A branch of a Purple leaf plum (Prunus cerasifera) showing the flowers, buds and leaves. These shrubs or small trees are among the first to blossom in spring Reason A conservative and minimalist depiction of a common subject, yet very detailed and sharp, clearly illustrating the flowers, buds and leaves of a Cherry tree.
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 × blireiana (or blireana), the purple-leafed plum [1] or double-flowering plum, [2] is an ornamental flowering plant hybrid in the genus Prunus. It is a cross between the Japanese apricot ( Prunus mume ) and the purple-leaved plum cultivar Prunus cerasifera 'Pissardii'.
The following tree species and cultivars in the genus Prunus (family Rosaceae) currently (2016) [1] hold the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. All are described as flowering or ornamental cherries, though they have mixed parentage, and some have several or unknown parents.
Only two plum species, the hexaploid European plum (Prunus domestica) and the diploid Japanese plum (Prunus salicina and hybrids), are of worldwide commercial significance. The origin of P. domestica is uncertain but may have involved P. cerasifera and possibly P. spinosa as ancestors. Other species of plum variously originated in Europe, Asia ...
Prunus × macedonica – Macedonian plum (P. cerasifera × P. cocomilia) Prunus × rossica – Russian plum (P. cerasifera × P. salicina) Prunus × simmleri [6] (P. cerasifera × P. spinosa) The taxonomic position of P. brigantina is disputed. It is grouped with species of Prunus sect. Prunus according to chloroplast DNA sequences, [2] but ...
Prunus insititia is still, however, occasionally regarded as a separate (entirely native) species. [6] It is possible that the bullace is genuinely native to Great Britain: the horticulturalist Harold Taylor, in his book The Plums of England , described it as "the only truly English plum", observing that all other hybrid varieties of plum and ...