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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 ...
White flowers in clusters of 2–4 appear in the spring. The edible fruits [6] are red or yellow drupes with white dots, reportedly sweet and pleasant tasting. The species grows in upland forests and near streams. [7] [8] [9] There are several domesticated cultivars and hybrids with other Prunus. [10]
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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.
They are known for being sweet and full of flavour. 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%). [citation needed]
Prunus angustifolia, known commonly as Chickasaw plum, Cherokee plum, Florida sand plum, sandhill plum, or sand plum, [3] is a North American species of plum-bearing tree. . It was originally cultivated by Native Americans before the arrival of Europe
Prunus cerasifera is a species of plum known by the common names cherry plum and myrobalan plum. [3] Native to Eurasia and naturalized elsewhere, P. cerasifera is believed to one of the parents of the cultivated plum .
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]