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The Wild Plum (Prunus americana) or Common Wild Plum, or American Plum, Marshall's Large Yellow Sweet Plum, has been found in every state of the union except Texas, California, Oregon, Nevada, Idaho, Hawaii and Alaska. It has been very generally confounded with the Canada Plum. The fruit is smaller, rounder than that of the Canada Plum and bright red in color.photo Many cultivated varieties have been derived from this species, as it quickly responds to the gardener's care; it also forms an excellent stock upon which to graft the domestic plum.[2]
Professor Sargent says of this tree, "As an ornamental plant P. americana has real value; the long wand-like branches form a wide, graceful head which is handsome in winter and in spring is covered with masses of pure white flowers followed by ample bright foliage and abundant showy fruit."[2]
The wild plums have been found to be the hosts of the hop aphids which are so destructive to the hops just at the time of their maturity, so it is recommended that plum trees not be in the vicinity of hop fields.[2]
References
Bibliography
- Keeler, Harriet L. (1900). Our Native Trees and How to Identify Them. New York: Charles Scriber's Sons. Downloadable Google Books at [1].
- Bailey, Liberty Hyde (1916). The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture. New York: The MacMillan Company. Downloadable Google Books at [2].
External links
- American plum, Virginia Tech Department of Forestry Tree ID.
- Prunus americana, USDA Plants Database.
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