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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.
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 sect. Prunocerasus (meaning plum-cherry) is a section of the genus Prunus. Koehne originally described it as comprising the North American plums and placed it in the subgenus Cerasus. [1] The section is now generally recognized as belonging to Prunus subg. Prunus. [2] Species attributed to this section include: P. alleghaniensis Porter
Prunus cerasifera – cherry plum; 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 ...
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Cherry plum may refer to: The species Prunus cerasifera; Plum-cherry hybrids; Prunus × rossica cultivars This page was last edited on 28 ...
Prunus glandulosa, called Chinese bush cherry, Chinese plum, and dwarf flowering almond, is a species of shrub tree native to China and long present in Japan. It is commonly used as an ornamental tree and for cut flowers .
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.