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Prunus × cistena ( N.E.Hansen ) Koehne Prunus × cistena , the purple leaf sand cherry or dwarf red-leaf plum , is a hybrid species of Prunus , the result of a cross between Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan plum) and Prunus pumila (sand cherry). [ 1 ]
Prunus cocomilia – Italian plum, cuckoo's apple; Prunus consociiflora [4] [5] – Hubei plum; Prunus darvasica – Darwaz plum; Prunus divaricata [2] – wild cherry plum; Prunus domestica – European plum; Prunus ramburii – sloe of Sierra Nevada (Spanish: endrino de Sierra Nevada) Prunus salicina – Chinese plum, Japanese plum; Prunus ...
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 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]
The flowers are white or pale pink and about 2 cm (3 ⁄ 4 in) across, with five petals and many stamens. The fruit is an edible drupe, 2–3 cm in diameter, ripening to yellow or red from early July to mid-September. They are self-fertile but can also be pollinated by other Prunus varieties such as the Victoria plum. [5]
It may be somewhat thorny, with white blossom, borne in early spring. The oval or spherical fruit varies in size, but can be up to 8 centimetres (3 inches) across. The pulp is usually sweet, [3] but some varieties are sour. Like all Prunus fruits, it contains a single large seed, usually called a stone, which is discarded when eating.
[3] Greengage: Green [3] Laetitia plum Red [5] LaCrescent Yellow Yellow flesh, freestone [1] Lemon plum Yellow Mirabelle: Yellow [6] Mount Royal Deep blue Yellow-green flesh, hardiest of the European plums [1] Opal Light red Bred in Sweden and released in 1925. A cross between a plum and a gage. Perdrigon: Pembina Red (with blue bloom) Yellow ...
Supposedly, the labels identifying the French plum trees were lost in transit to Gage's home at Hengrave Hall, near Bury St Edmunds. [5] More recent research indicates that it was a cousin and namesake Sir William Gage, 2nd Baronet of Hengrave who was responsible for introducing the greengage to England.