شجرة Chickasaw Plum. They provide abundant crops of small bright red plums that ripen to yellow and make delicious jelly. Easy care chickasaw plum tree prunus angustifolia is a wonderful option as a unique ornamental in the home garden or to naturalize in a larger landscape.
They provide abundant crops of small bright red plums that ripen to yellow and make delicious jelly. Small thorny tree to 25 feet usually much smaller flower small under half an inch 5 white petals fragrant. It is known scientifically as prunus angustifolia.
Either way this tree adapts to almost any landscape use.
The chickasaw plum tree is a native plum to america that was first discovered by william bartram growing throughout the southern states and bartram recorded that the chickasaw plums named after the chickasaw indian tribe were harvested for eating by early american indian tribes in his book travels in 1773. Description and adaptation chickasaw plum is a short thickly branched shrub 3 to 10 feet tall often forming extensive thickets or colonies due to extensive suckering in the western part of its range. In the early spring while other deciduous trees are still dormant chickasaws announce their presence with stunning clouds of tiny pure white fragrant flowers. These small trees grow quickly but have a relatively short life.
