European Plum
Prunus domestica · Rosaceae · 서양자두나무
How to spot it
Grows as a large shrub or small tree with white flowers and drupes; the branches may have thorns.
Look
- Leaves
- Alternate, ovate simple leaves with toothed margins.
- Flowers
- White flowers with five petals and long stamens open singly or in pairs before the leaves.
- Fruit
- A fleshy one-seeded drupe; the fruit is purple, red or yellow depending on the cultivar.
- Bark
- Glossy, silvery-gray bark with conspicuous horizontal lenticels.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Planted
- Native to
- The region from the southern Caucasus to northern Iran.
- Ecology
- It flowers later than other plums, which NC State describes as a trait suited to growing in northern climates.