When the cherry plum tree reaches its full height, it measures 15 to 20 feet. If it falls during a storm or splits in half, the large limbs could cause damage to your home's roof. With this size ...

Sure, the cherry plum tree (Prunus cerasifera) is beautiful. It's a popular, widely cultivated tree native to western Asia and the Caucasus, but it grows fast and can be invasive and hard to ...

Aside from cherry trees having the horizontal rings known as lenticels, a cherry blossom’s petals are slightly serrated while the flowers blooming from a plum tree do not.

Cherry tree bark has little growths called lenticels that help them expel carbon dioxide. "They're little horizontal stripes in the bark, and plum trees don't have that," Shores said.

Family Tree Farms, owned by another branch of the same Jackson family that owns Kingsburg Orchards, has planted 10 acres of another plum-cherry hybrid, Gold Nugget, from another breeder (they won ...

Flavor Tree now tends to roughly 400 acres of Verry Cherry Plum trees, which Cameron said is a substantial amount of orchard space dedicated to a single fruit. Their commercial debut was at a ...

During a February tree walk at the Staten Island Botanic Garden we encountered a beautiful pink, flowering Prunus mume, Japanese apricot tree, which I mistakenly thought was a cherry tree.

First off, yes, it is too early for cherry blossoms. The flowers folks around town are seeing now are not in fact cherry tree blossoms. They are in fact Japanese plum trees.

Knotty tree fungus strikes cherry, plum trees in Augusta City officials plan to remove 14 infected cherry trees at Monument Park, off Memorial Circle. Posted June 28, 2020 Updated June 29, 2020 ...

Before the cherry blossoms start to bloom next month, locals can head to the DC War Memorial to see their slightly-less-famous friends—the Japanese plum trees. Here’s what to know about these ...

Varieties of Japanese plum fruits are yellow or light red, but never purple-blue. Japanese plums will produce better crops when cross-pollinated. In my garden, I have an Elephant Heart and a Santa ...

Cherry tree bark has little growths called lenticels that help them expel carbon dioxide. "They're little horizontal stripes in the bark, and plum trees don't have that," Shores said.