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Introduction
Plum tree Classical classification Kingdom Plantae Sub-kingdom Tracheobionta Division (Division is a law of composition which associates the product of the first by…) Magnoliophyta Class Magnoliopsida Sub-class Rosidae Order Rosales Family Rosaceae Sub-family Prunoideae Genus Prunus Name binomial (In taxonomy (botany, zoology, etc.), the binomial name, or binomial, comes from…) Prunus domestica
L., 1753 Phylogenetic classification (Phylogenetic classification is a system for classifying beings…) Order Rosales Family Rosaceae Subfamily Prunoideae
The plum tree (The plum tree (Prunus domestica L.) is a fruit tree belonging to the genus Prunus of the family…) (Prunus domestica L.) is a fruit tree (A fruit tree is a tree cultivated especially for its edible fruits.) belonging to the genus Prunus of the Rosaceae family, cultivated for its fruit, the plums.
Subspecies
This taxon includes many species, forms, varieties, cultivars and hybrids. Among the main ones:
Prunus domestica subsp. domestica, to which most known cultivated varieties belong. Prunus domestica n. subsp. italica (Borkh.) Gams ex Hegi, (domestica x insititia or domestica X domestica var. insititia) to which are attached in particular: Reine-claude, quetschier, prunier d’Ente (prune) Prunus x cerea (L.) Ehrh., (cerasifera x domestica) to which are attached in particular:
Other species are used as rootstock:
Japanese plum (Prunus salicina); myrobalan plum (Prunus cerasifera). prunellier (The prunellier, also written blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) is a shrub of the family of…) (Prunus spinosa).
Utilisation
The plum tree is cultivated mainly for its fruit (In botany, the fruit is the plant organ protecting the seed….), the plum. Plums are eaten either as table fruit (in particular varieties of the Reine-Claude type), or processed: pastries, jams (mirabelle plums, plum plums), or dried (Agen prunes).
On en tire aussi des liqueurs (mirabelle, quetsche).
The plum tree is also an ornamental tree.
Description
The plum tree is a medium-sized tree (The average is a statistical measure characterizing the elements of a set of…) (between 3 and 8 meters high), sometimes thorny, which flowers early in spring (Le Printemps (du Latin primus, first, and tempus, time, this season marking formerly the…) (March-April) The white flowers appear before the leaves on branches of the year (A year is a unit of time expressing the duration between two occurrences of a linked event…) the previous one). The fruit, the plum, is more or less spherical or oblong in shape, glabrous and covered with “bloom”, which is a fine waxy film. The oval nucleus (In the etymological sense, an oval is an egg shape. In mathematics, and more…) contains a usually bitter almond.
Its longevity (The longevity of a living being is the lifespan for which it is…) varies from 30 to 50 years (for free standing trees).
Other species
Some trees bear the vernacular name of plum tree, whereas they are neither Prunus nor Rosaceae.
Chinese plum, Flacourtia rukam, Flacourtiaceae; Indian plum, Flacourtia jangomas, Flacourtia cataphracta, Stgmarota jangomas, Flacourtiaceae; Martinique plum tree (Martinique is both an overseas region and an overseas department…), Flacourtia inermis, Flacourtiaceae; Plum mombin, Spondias mombin, Anacardiaceae.
Enemies of the plum tree
pests
Aphids, plum sawfly, plum codling moth, plum ermine moth, sawfly (Sawflies are the imagoes of Symphyte Hymenoptera, sawflies…) of the leaf (The leaf is the specialized organ for photosynthesis in plants …) of the plum tree, red spider (The color red responds to different definitions, depending on the chromatic system of which we make…),
Maladies
cryptogamic diseases: disease (The disease is an alteration of the functions or health of a living organism, animal…) of lead (Lead is a chemical element of the family of crystallogens, symbol Pb and…) , milled agaric, brown moniliose, pouch disease; bacterial diseases: bacterial canker; deficiency diseases: iron deficiency (Iron is a chemical element, symbol Fe and atomic number 26. It is…).
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