General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Shrub
Tree
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Plant Height: 250 - 300 cm
Plant Spread: 200 cm
Leaves: Deciduous
Fruit: Showy
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: White
Flower Time: Late winter or early spring
Spring
Uses: Flowering Tree
Edible Parts: Fruit
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Provide darkness
Stratify seeds: 3 months
Depth to plant seed: 2-3 cm
Pollinators: Bees
Various insects

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Common names
  • European Wild Plum
  • Plum
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Prunus domestica subsp. insititia
  • Synonym: Prunus insititia
  • Synonym: Prunus bokhariensis

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Date: 2011-08-27

Date: c. 1911
photo from Hedrick's 'Plums of New York', 1911

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