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Prunus × blireiana (or blireana), the purple-leafed plum [1] or double-flowering plum, [2] is an ornamental flowering plant hybrid in the genus Prunus.It is a cross between the Chinese flowering plum (Prunus mume) and the purple-leaved plum cultivar Prunus cerasifera 'Pissardii'.
Prunus triloba, sometimes called flowering plum [2] or flowering almond, a name shared with Prunus jacquemontii, [3] is a shrubby cherry, sometimes becoming a small tree. The flowers are pale pink or white, [3] and the fruit are red and "pubescent", i.e. with soft hair. It originates from China but is popular around the world as an ornamental.
The plant is known by a number of different names in English, including flowering plum or plum blossoms, which are misnomers as P. mume is under the apricot section Armeniaca. Also a misnomer, Japanese apricot, is incorrectly used as the plant is native to China, is likely derived as the plant was introduced to the West by Siebold in Japan.
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 ...
Flowering plum is a common name for several species in the plum genus cultivated for their flowers, and may refer to: Prunus cerasifera, native to Europe; Prunus mume, native to eastern Asia; Prunus triloba, native to eastern Asia
Prunus domestica is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. A deciduous tree, it includes many varieties of the fruit trees known as plums in English, though not all plums belong to this species. The greengages and damsons also belong to subspecies of P. domestica.