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Prunus × cistena ( N.E.Hansen ) Koehne Prunus × cistena , the purple leaf sand cherry or dwarf red-leaf plum , is a hybrid species of Prunus , the result of a cross between Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan plum) and Prunus pumila (sand cherry). [ 1 ]
Prunus × cistena (purple leaf sand cherry) is a hybrid of Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum) and P. pumila. [10] It was developed by Niels Ebbesen Hansen of South Dakota State University in 1910. [11] They grow to be about 2.1 m (7 ft) tall and can live for up to 20 years. [12]
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.
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 ...
Plants of the World Online list [ edit ] The following species in the genus Prunus were recognised by Plants of the World Online as of March 2024 [update] : [ 1 ]
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.