PLANT OF THE MONTH

March 2021 — Flowering Plum

Common Name: Flowering Plum, Cherry Plum, Myrobalan Plum

Latin Name: Prunus cerasifera

Family: Rosaceae

Type: Deciduous flowering fruit tree

Origin:  Central and Western Asia, Eastern Europe

Location at Bloedel Reserve:  Japanese Garden

Garden Uses:  Specimen fruit tree

 Fun Fact:  This cherry plum in the Japanese Garden will demand your attention, as it is one of the first blooming trees to remind us that spring is almost here. It will be be covered in white, fragrant flowers just before its leaves emerge.  “Cerasifera” is from the Latin words cerasus, meaning cherry tree, and ferre, meaning to bear.