American Plum (Prunus americana)

American Plum (Prunus americana)Estimated Height at Pickup: 3 4, 3 gal A small tree with white spring flowers and edible fruit, American plum is a good replacement for the wildly invasive callery pear. Plums vary in size and sweetness, but are more nutritious and often tastier than store bought plums. As with all Prunus species, American plums hosts many insects including coral hairstreak, Eastern tiger swallowtail, red spotted purple, azure, and viceroy butterflies! Will sucker by

but adapts to a wide variety of soils and young trees can take part shade

so rarely browsed

Soil Moisture: Wet Mesic

American beech are currently under pressure from beech bark disease

and mourning cloak

Berries are eaten by many animals

Notes: Prune in winter if desired

Fruit: Edible nut meat in a thick shelled nut

spidery yellow blooms

moths such as the scallop shell and blind-eyed sphinx

many longhorn beetles

Multiple efforts are underway to breed a resistant population through line breeding