If you need a plum Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree ( Prunus spp . ) for a garden of aboriginal plants , you ’ll have to put up with prickles , aswild plumshave thorny branches — admit the one you ’ll most in all likelihood encounter , the American unfounded plum tree ( Prunus americana ) .
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European plums ( Prunus domesticus ) and Nipponese plum ( Prunus salicina ) do not have thorns . These two metal money grow in U.S. Department of Agriculture industrial plant hardiness zones 4 through 8 , depending on cultivar . European plums typically develop better in the colder end of that chain of mountains .
American Wild Plum
American wild plumis widespread throughout the United States where it grows in USDA zone 3b through 8 . It develop from 15 to 18 feet in high spirits and 12 to 18 feet wide , with thorny branches growing from multiple body or clumps of fore . It shows white flowers in spring and yields 1/2 - inch - all-inclusive plum that mature from red to white-livered . wench like the plum tree , and they can be made into gelatin .
American wild plum tree are sometimes used to mold hybrid varieties with Nipponese plums . The leave plum are smaller than typically enceinte juicy Nipponese plums , but the intercrossed trees , which do not have thorns , will outlive colder winters .
Chickasaw Plum
Chickasaw plum(Prunus augustifolia ) , sometimes call sand plum , sandhill plum or mountain cherry , grow from 3 to 10 feet tall forming all-encompassing thorny thickets in the wild . It produce with multiple stems with branch that have reddish brownish barque , and it yields 1/4- to 1/2 - column inch - all-encompassing yellow , orange or red plums with fragile pelt . The plums can be bitter , although they are sometimes eaten invigorated or used to make jam , jelly and vino . The Chickasaw plum is widespread in sandy prairie and will grow in USDA zone 6a through 9b .
Flatwoods Plum
Theflatwoods plum(Prunus umbellata ) grows 12 to 20 gamy and just as wide , yielding ironical , hard , purple plums among its droopy , burred branches . The 1/2 to 1 - in - wide plums , much loved by bird , are tart to sweet . It bears showy creamy white to gray flower in spring . rule by nature in the southwest United States , it will farm in USDA zona 8a through 9b .
Canada Plum
Canada plum ( Prunus nigra ) , also holler Princess Kay plum tree , is a hazardous plum tree that grows 15 to 20 feet gamy and 12 to 15 feet wide in the southern parts of Eastern Canadian responsibility and in the spate south along the East Coast to Georgia . grow in USDA geographical zone 3 through 9 , it has spine on its branches that grow to about 2 column inch long . It is grown primarily for its fragrant white-hot flowers with dual rows of petal that wrick pink as they mature in the spring . Its return of plums is negligible , although they can be eat fresh or made into wine , gelatin and crush .
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The endangered scrub plum ( genus Prunus geniculate ) is aboriginal to areas of central Florida within USDA zona 9a and 9b . It has a gnarled proboscis with zag - zagging branches with thorns at their tip . It yields bitter , ruddy purple plum about an inch long . As of 2008 , there were less than 100 of these trees leave .
