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• Aprium
  ...uced in the late 1980s by [[Floyd Zaiger]]. Apriums are complex crosses of plums and apricots. These hybrids are created by [http://dictionary.reference.com ...ther complex sugars) and flavorful mix of wonderful, aromatic apricots and plums. Incidentally, apriums are usually only available in the United States duri
  1 KB (226 words) - 16:13, 2 October 2007
• Damson
  ...usually referred to the botanical name of Prunus insilitia (e.g., Hedrick, Plums of New York, p. 40); but they are also classlfied with the Damsons, thus ta
  1 KB (205 words) - 19:59, 18 February 2010
• Zaiger's Genetics
  2 KB (248 words) - 16:22, 2 October 2007
• Prunus americana
  ...rms are found in abundance. It is the most prolific source of cult, native plums for the cold N., giving rise to such varieties as Blackhawk, Cherokee, Crai ...a, Mo.—To this form belong the Wolf, Van Buren, Quaker, and American Eagle plums. There is also a double-fld. variety.
  5 KB (674 words) - 12:33, 21 September 2009
• Astragalus bibullatus
  ...rplish fruits that ripen on the ground in June and look superficially like plums. However, the species is a [[legume]] and is unrelated to the plum. The f
  3 KB (365 words) - 14:11, 5 August 2007
• Bromelia pinguin
  ...in a dense panicle, with a mealy rachis, the sepals acute: fr. as large as plums, acid. W. Indies. — Makes a good hedge in tropical countries, and the fr.
  1 KB (183 words) - 22:30, 13 February 2010
• Prunus cerasifera
  Cultivated cherry plums can have fruits, foliage, and flowers in any of several colors. Some variet ...Others, such as 'Lindsayae', have green foliage. Some kinds of purple-leaf plums are used for [[bonsai]]<ref name=pissard/> and other forms of [[living scul
  8 KB (1,280 words) - 02:46, 18 May 2011
• Rosales
  3 KB (340 words) - 01:27, 22 November 2008
• Prunus domestica
  ...old-time or common plums, as distinguished from the Japanese and American plums. The synonymy of the main varietal groups is shown by Waugh, Bot. Gaz. 26, ...Borkh.). Damson, Bullace, and probably also St. Julien, and other kinds of plums. A form with small foliage and small firm oval or ovoid frs. borne mostly i
  5 KB (824 words) - 12:28, 21 September 2009
• Greengage
  ...ionery flavour that causes them to be considered one of the finest dessert plums.
  3 KB (387 words) - 18:03, 28 September 2007
• Common Rue
  .... The bitter leaf can be added to eggs, cheese, fish, or mixed with damson plums and wine to produce a meat sauce.
  3 KB (490 words) - 09:58, 7 October 2007
• Prunus salicina
  .... is of lower quality than the domestica plums. The season of the Japanese plums begins considerably in advance of the domesticas and holds nearly as late.
  5 KB (716 words) - 19:03, 22 September 2009
• Packages
  ==Plums== Plums are shipped in a great variety of packages. Fancy grades are wrapped in pap
  16 KB (2,712 words) - 04:03, 3 June 2009
• Melicoccus bijugatus
  ...is cult. in S. Fla. and S. Calif. Its frs. are about the size and shape of plums, green or yellow, and have a pleasant grape-like flavor. The large seeds ar
  2 KB (326 words) - 18:04, 5 January 2010
• Cerasus
  ...pt distinct in trade lists, representing the cherries as distinct from the plums. Botanically, the group is distinguished from Prunus proper (the plum group
  4 KB (542 words) - 09:56, 28 June 2009
• Symbiosis
  ...s); or galls (hypertrophies) produced on the host, as in the black-knot of plums; and in higher plants, which live at the expense of others, as the mistleto
  3 KB (443 words) - 20:34, 6 August 2009
• Plum
  |image_caption=Plums Plums come in a wide variety of colours and sizes. Some are much firmer-fleshed t
  44 KB (7,382 words) - 01:52, 5 March 2015
• Prunus pumila var. besseyi
  ...ed by Hansen. The species ia useful as a stock for certain other cherries, plums, and even peaches for cold countries where the trees must be protected.
  4 KB (570 words) - 19:10, 22 September 2009
• Prunus pumila
  ...fungus Monilia). There are reputed crosses between this species and native plums.
  4 KB (575 words) - 12:54, 21 September 2009
• Dwarfing
  ...ast three centuries, various stocks have been used to dwarf apples, pears, plums, cherries and quinces. In fact, dwarf fruit trees were quite as common, or ...te readily with several varieties each of either the Domestica or Triflora plums, and to make very good dwarfing stocks for them.
  16 KB (2,838 words) - 21:36, 15 September 2009

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