The fruit's peel is smooth, with a natural waxy surface that adheres to the flesh. They blossom in different months in different parts of the world for example, in about January in Taiwan and early April in the United Kingdom.įruits are usually of medium size, between 1 and 3 inches in diameter, globose to oval. Without pruning, the trees can reach 12 metres in height and spread across 10 metres. The commercially important plum trees are medium-sized, usually pruned to 5–6 metres height. Dried plum fruits are called dried plums or prunes, although, in American English, prunes are a distinct type of plum, and may have pre-dated the fruits now commonly known as plums. This is an epicuticular wax coating and is known as "wax bloom". Mature plum fruit may have a dusty-white waxy coating that gives them a glaucous appearance. The subgenus is distinguished from other subgenera (peaches, cherries, bird cherries, etc.) in the shoots having terminal bud and solitary side buds (not clustered), the flowers in groups of one to five together on short stems, and the fruit having a groove running down one side and a smooth stone (or pit). A plum is a fruit of the subgenus Prunus of the genus Prunus.
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