Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Prunus domestica
Common name
Plum
Family
Rosaceae
Where found
Garden escape. Widespread but not common.
Notes
Introduced deciduous shrub or tree to 10 m high, often suckering from the roots. Fruit fleshy, edible. Young plants sometimes spiny. Young twigs usually hairy with short hairs, dull. Leaves alternating up the stems, 4–10 cm long, 15–50 mm wide, tips pointed, margins scalloped or toothed, surfaces hairless or hairy above, hairy below. Flowers white, with 5 petals. Flowers single or in clusters of 2–3 on short side branches, appearing with or before the leaves. Fruit purple, red, yellow or green, round to oval, 1–3.5 cm diameter, hairless, with a waxy bloom. Flowers Sep.–Nov.
Family was Amygdalaceae.
VICFLORA description: https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/bbbc69c7-f079-4f33-8ae3-25ec7408e943 (accessed 14 March 2021)
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