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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 insititia is still, however, occasionally regarded as a separate (entirely native) species. [6] It is possible that the bullace is genuinely native to Great Britain: the horticulturalist Harold Taylor, in his book The Plums of England , described it as "the only truly English plum", observing that all other hybrid varieties of plum and ...
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 ...
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
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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 ...
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.