      
Taxon: Prunus domestica L.
Genus: Prunus subgenus: Prunus section: Prunus
Family: Rosaceae subfamily: Amygdaloideae tribe: Amygdaleae.
Nomen number: 29888
Place of publication: Sp. pl. 1:475. 1753
Typification: View record from Linnaean Plant Name Typification Project
of the Natural History Museum of London.
Name verified on: 07-Apr-2011 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 07-Apr-2011
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Davis (DAV).
Accessions:
180 in National Plant Germplasm System.
Check PlantSearch
database of Botanic Gardens
Conservation International for possible non-NPGS germplasm.
See also subordinate taxa:
- bullace plum (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English [Prunus domestica subsp. insititia]
- damson plum (Source: Hortus 3
[as P. insititia]) – English [Prunus domestica subsp. insititia]
- European plum (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English [Prunus domestica subsp. domestica]
- gage (Source: Pl Book
) – English [Prunus domestica subsp. domestica]
- gardalu (Source: Genet Res Crop Evol
) – English [Prunus domestica subsp. domestica]
- garden plum (Source: AH 505
) – English [Prunus domestica subsp. domestica]
- greengage (Source: Mansf Ency
) – English [Prunus domestica subsp. italica]
- plum (Source: World Econ Pl
) – English [Prunus domestica subsp. domestica]
- prune plum (Source: AH 505
) – English [Prunus domestica subsp. domestica]
- wild plum (Source: BSBI
) – English
- yellow plum (Source: Mansf Ency
) – English [Prunus domestica subsp. syriaca]
- ou zhou li (Source: F ChinaEng
) – Transcribed Chinese
- wu jing zi li (Source: F ChinaEng
[as P. insititia]) – Transcribed Chinese [Prunus domestica subsp. insititia]
- pruneaulier (Source: Mansf Ency
) – French [Prunus domestica subsp. insititia]
- prunier (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French [Prunus domestica subsp. domestica]
- prunier commun (Source: Dict Rehm
) – French [Prunus domestica subsp. domestica]
- Haferpflaume (Source: Zander ed14
) – German [Prunus domestica subsp. insititia]
- Kriechenpflaume (Source: Zander ed14
) – German [Prunus domestica subsp. insititia]
- Mirabelle (Source: Mansf Ency
) – German [Prunus domestica subsp. syriaca]
- Pflaume (Source: Zander ed17
) – German [Prunus domestica subsp. domestica]
- Pflaumenbaum (Source: Dict Rehm
) – German [Prunus domestica subsp. domestica]
- Reineclaude (Source: Zander ed17
) – German [Prunus domestica subsp. italica]
- Reneklode (Source: Zander ed17
) – German [Prunus domestica subsp. italica]
- Rundpflaumen (Source: Mansf Ency
[as P. domestica subsp. rotunda]) – German [Prunus domestica subsp. italica]
- Zwetsche (Source: Zander ed17
) – German [Prunus domestica subsp. domestica]
- Zwetschge (Source: Mansf Ency
) – German [Prunus domestica subsp. domestica]
- Zwispeln (Source: Mansf Ency
) – German [Prunus domestica subsp. domestica]
- alubukhara (Source: Mansf Ency
) – India (Hindi) [Prunus domestica subsp. insititia]
- ameixoeira (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Portuguese [Prunus domestica subsp. domestica]
- ameixa-comum (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- ameixa-européia (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- ameixa-preta (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- ameixa-roxa (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- ameixa-vermela (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
- cirolero (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish [Prunus domestica subsp. domestica]
- ciruelo (Source: Dict Rehm
) – Spanish [Prunus domestica subsp. domestica]
- plommon (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn
) – Swedish
- More:
- Human food: beverage base (fide F ChinaEng)
- Human food: fruit (fide F ChinaEng)
- Gene sources: graft stock relative for apricot (fide Pl Breed 124:68. 2005)
- Gene sources: graft stock relative for plum (fide Pl Breed 124:68. 2005)
- Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of Japanese plum (based on affinities to Prunus salicina fide Theor Appl Genet 90:1038, 1039. 1995)
- Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of peach (fide Temp Fruit Cr Breed 267. 2008)
- Medicines: folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
- Vertebrate poisons: mammals (fide Cooper & Johnson ed2)
- More:
Naturalized:
Cultivated:
Other:
- Afonin, A. N., S. L. Greene, N. I. Dzyubenko, & A. N. Frolov, eds.
Interactive agricultural ecological atlas of Russia and neighboring countries. Economic plants and their diseases, pests and weeds (on-line resource).
- Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson.
2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
- Aradhya, M. K. et al.
2004. Molecular characterization of variability and relationships among seven cultivated and selected wild species of Prunus L. using amplified fragment length polymorphism.
Sci. Hort.
103:131–144.
- Badenes, M. L. & D. E. Parfitt.
1995. Phylogenetic relationships of cultivated Prunus species from analysis of chloroplast DNA.
Theor. Appl. Genet.
90:1035–1041.
- Bortiri, E. et al.
2001. Phylogeny and systematics of Prunus (Rosaceae) as determined by sequence analysis of ITS and the chloroplast trnL-trnF spacer DNA.
Syst. Bot.
26:797–807. [this study found that most species of the subgenus Prunus clustered together supporting the recognition of "traditional sections"; P. domestica clustered with both parental species: P. cerasifera and P. spinosa].
- Botanical Society of the British Isles.
BSBI taxon database (on-line resource).
- Bouhadida, M. et al.
2007. Chloroplast DNA diversity in Prunus and its implication on genetic relationships.
J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci.
132:670–679.
- Cooper, M. R. & A. W. Johnson.
1998. Poisonous plants and fungi in Britain: animal and human poisoning.
- Davis, P. H., ed.
1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
[= P. spinosa].
- Depypere, L. et al.
2009. A combined morphometric and AFLP based diversity study challenges the taxonomy of the European members of the complex Prunus L. section Prunus.
Pl. Syst. Evol.
279:219–231. [this study found a genetically similar identity between Prunus domestica and P. insititia, but different in fruit morphology].
- Duke, J. A. et al.
2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
- Encke, F. et al.
1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource).
- Groth, D.
2005. pers. comm.
[re. Brazilian common names].
- Hancock, J. F. et al.
2008. Chapter 9. Peaches.
In: Hancock, J. F., ed., Temperate fruit crop breeding: germplasm to genomics.
265–298. [this review included Prunus domestica as one of the species crossed with P. persica "that form mostly sterile hybrids"].
- Hartmann, W. & M. Neumüller.
2009. Plum breeding.
In: Jain, S. M. & P.M. Priyadarshan, eds., Breeding plantation tree crops: temperate species.
161–231.
- Komarov, V. L. et al., eds.
1934–1964. Flora SSSR.
- Lee, S. & J. Wen.
2001. A phylogenetic analysis of Prunus and the Amygdaloideae (Rosaceae) using ITS sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA.
Amer. J. Bot.
88:150–160.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium.
1976. Hortus third.
- McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker.
2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
- Mowrey, B. D. & D. J. Werner.
1990. Phylogenetic relationships among species of Prunus as inferred by isozyme markers.
Theor. Appl. Genet.
80:129–133.
- Okie, W. R. & J. F. Hancock.
2008. Chapter 11. Plums.
In: Hancock, J. F., ed., Temperate fruit crop breeding: germplasm to genomics.
337–357.
- Pandey, A. et al.
2008. Genetic resources of Prunus (Rosaceae) in India.
Genet. Resources Crop Evol.
55:91–104. [recognized as one of the main cultivated species in Prunus].
- Porcher, M. H. et al.
Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
- Rechinger, K. H., ed.
1963–. Flora iranica.
[= P. spinosa].
- Rehm, S. & G. Espig.
1991. The cultivated plants of the tropics and subtropics.
- Rubio, M. et al.
2005. Evaluation of resistance to sharka (plum pox virus) of several Prunus rootstocks.
Pl. Breed. (New York)
124:67–70.
- Scoggan, H. J.
1978–1979. The flora of Canada, 4 vol.
- Shaw, J. & R. L. Small.
2004. Addressing the "hardest puzzle in American pomology:" Phylogeny of Prunus sect. Prunocerasus (Rosaceae) based on seven noncoding chloroplast DNA regions.
Amer. J. Bot.
91:985–996.
- Townsend, C. C. & E. Guest.
1966–. Flora of Iraq.
[= P. spinosa × P. cerasifera].
- Tutin, T. G. et al., eds.
1964–1980. Flora europaea.
- Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds.
1994–. Flora of China (English edition).
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other web resources for Prunus domestica L.:
Images:
- Stone: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
-
 Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be
inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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