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The fruit is a drupe, with a firm and juicy flesh. China is the largest producer of plums, followed by Romania and Serbia. Japanese or Chinese plums dominate the fresh fruit market, while European plums are also common in some regions. Plums can be eaten fresh, dried to make prunes, used in jams, or fermented into wine and distilled into brandy.
Pluots, apriums, apriplums, plumcots, plumpicots, or pluclots are some of the hybrids between different Prunus species that are also called interspecific plums. Whereas plumcots and apriplums are first-generation hybrids between a plum parent ( P. salicina [ 1 ] ) and an apricot ( P. armeniaca ), pluots and apriums are later-generations.
The damson (/ ˈ d æ m z ə n /), damson plum, or damascene [1] (Prunus domestica subsp. insititia, sometimes Prunus insititia), [2] is an edible drupaceous fruit, a subspecies of the plum tree. Varieties of insititia are found across Europe, but the name damson is derived from and most commonly applied to forms that are native to Great ...
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] The plant propagates by seed or by suckering, and is often used as the rootstock for other Prunus species and cultivars. [4]
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 ...
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 flesh. From South Dakota [1] Pipestone Red Very large fruit with yellow sweet juicy flesh ...
Prunus mexicana, commonly known as the Mexican plum, [1] Inch plum, and Bigtree plum, [3] is a North American species of plum tree that can be found in the central United States and Northern Mexico. Description
Greengage fruit are identified by their round-oval shape and smooth-textured, pale green flesh; they are on average smaller than round plums but larger than mirabelle plums—usually between 2 and 4 centimetres (1 and 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) diameter.