Taxon: Prunus maritima Marshall

Species on the following lists:

• Center for Plant Conservation (as Prunus maritima var. gravesii)
  
• Check conservation status and distribution in NatureServe Explorer database

Common names:

• beach plum   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• shore plum   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• Strandpflaume   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German
  

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see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Krussmann)
  
• Human food: fruit   (esp. for preserves, sauces fide Food Feed Crops US)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock relative for peach   (fide Acta Hort 557:181. 2001)
  
• Gene sources: potential for salt tolerance in peach   (as a graft stock for peach fide Acta Hort 557:181. 2001)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of plum   (a diploid listed as important for plum breeding fide Temp Fruit Cr Breed 340. 2008)
  

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View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Eastern Canada: Canada - New Brunswick
  Northeastern U.S.A.: United States - Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York [s.e.], Pennsylvania [s.e.], Rhode Island
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Delaware, Maryland

• also cultivated

References:

• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1991. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada, ed. 2.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 1:514.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• IPGRI. New World Fruits Database (on-line resource).
• Jones, G. N. & G. D. Fuller. 1955. Vascular plants of Illinois. [cultivated].
• Kartesz, J. T. 1994. A synonymized checklist of the vascular flora of the United States, Canada, and Greenland. [with two varieties].
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Ma, H. et al. 2009. Evaluation of flowering cherry species, hybrids, and cultivars using simple sequence repeat markers. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 134:435–444. [as an outgroup].
• Markle, G. M. et al., eds. 1998. Food and feed crops of the United States, 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. [this study found Prunus maritima together with P. umbellata were closer to members of section Prunus than to members of its own section Prunocerasus].
• Okie, W. R. & J. F. Hancock. 2008. Chapter 11. Plums. In: Hancock, J. F., ed., Temperate fruit crop breeding: germplasm to genomics. 337–357.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rieger, M. 2001. Salt strees resistance of peach and four North American Prunus species. Acta Hort. 557:181–192.
• Rohrer, J. R. 2011. Prunus (Rosaceae). In: FNA Editorial Committee, Flora of North America. 9: in press.
• Shaw, J. & R. L. Small. 2005. Chloroplast DNA phylogeny and phylogeography of the North American plums (Prunus subgenus Prunus section Prunocerasus, Rosaceae). Amer. J. Bot. 92:2011–2030. [this study examined 14 samples of Prunus maritima and one of var. gravesii; it found that the species carried two haplotypes, one of which was present in the variety revealing a disjunction between the North Atlantic USA and the Gulf Coast; all samples grouped unresolved in their "beach clade"].
• Zai, X. et al. 2009. The application of beach plum (Prunus maritima) to wasteland vegetation recovery in Jiangsu Province, China: Seedling cloning and transplantation. Ecol. Engineer. 35:591–596.

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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Prunus maritima.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Prunus maritima.

Synonyms:

• (=) Prunus gravesii Small
  
• (=) Prunus maritima var. gravesii (Small) G. J. Anderson
  

Check other web resources for Prunus maritima Marshall:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• New World Fruits Database: Online database from Bioversity International
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Prunus maritima cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Stone: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

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• 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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