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Prunus salicina (syn. Prunus triflora or Prunus thibetica), commonly called the Japanese plum or Chinese plum, [2] is a small deciduous tree native to China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. It is an introduced species in Korea, Japan, the United States, and Australia.
Japanese plum is a common name for several trees producing edible fruits and may refer to: Prunus mume; Prunus salicina, native to China; Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica)
Only two plum species, the hexaploid European plum (Prunus domestica) and the diploid Japanese plum (Prunus salicina and hybrids), are of worldwide commercial significance. The origin of P. domestica is uncertain but may have involved P. cerasifera and possibly P. spinosa as ancestors. Other species of plum variously originated in Europe, Asia ...
The word umeboshi is often translated into English as 'salted Japanese plums', 'Japanese plums' or 'preserved plums'. Ume (Prunus mume) is a species of fruit-bearing tree in the genus Prunus, which is often called a "plum", but is actually more closely related to the apricot. [1] Pickled ume which are not dried are called umezuke (梅漬け). [2]
The name loquat derives from Cantonese lou 4 gwat 1 (Chinese: 盧橘; pinyin: lújú; lit. 'black orange'). The phrase 'black orange' originally referred to unripened kumquats, which are dark green in color, but the name was mistakenly applied to the loquat by the ancient Chinese poet Su Shi when he was residing in southern China, and the mistake was widely taken up by the Cantonese region ...
1 ½ cup Japanese rice, cooked to fluffiness Three umeboshi salted Japanese plums (available at Asian food stores; for smaller umeboshi, use one for each rice ball) Two sheets of dried nori seaweed
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 ...
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.