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Prunus mexicana
Also called Bigtree Plum, Inch Plum, Woolly Leaf American Plum
Prunus mexicana is a North American plum tree, a species in the rose family, grown for its spring blossom and edible fruit. It is drought tolerant and adaptable to many soils, and the tree is also used as rootstock for grafting other plums.
Prunus mexicana, commonly known as the Mexican plum, inch plum, or bigtree plum, is a North American species of plum tree.
The native range of the species stretches from South Dakota east to Wisconsin, Ohio, Kentucky, and Georgia, and south to the Mexican states of Coahuila and San Luis Potosí.
The fruit is made into preserves and the tree can serve as a rootstock for grafting other plum cultivars.
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The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
Pet safety from the ASPCA toxic and non-toxic plant lists.
