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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 flesh. From South Dakota ...
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
Prunus alleghaniensis is a shrub or small tree 0.91–3.66 meters (3–12 feet) tall. The leaves are 5 to 9 centimeters (2 to 3 + 1 ⁄ 2 inches) long, the tip is usually long and pointed. The leaf margins are finely toothed. The twigs sometimes have thorns.
The fruit is primarily used in fruit preserves and dessert pies, [1] and its juice is commonly fermented for wine or distilled into plum brandy. Some 90% of mirabelle plums grown commercially are made into either jam (70%) or eau de vie (20%).
The bullace is a variety of plum. 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 ...
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 pulp is edible [20] and usually sweet, though some varieties are sour and require cooking with sugar to make them palatable. Plums are grown commercially in orchards, but modern rootstocks , together with self-fertile strains, training and pruning methods, allow single plums to be grown in relatively small spaces.
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]