At oikostreecrops.com I saw that they have a few types of wild plums. I have 2 japanese plums in the ground and have some beach plums coming in the spring. I don't know anything about wild plums other than reading about american plum seedlings but that's not what I want.
Anyone have a wild plums growing? Good/bad???
Thanks!
Hi Ruggr.
You may have been confused by the name. American plum seedlings.
Prunus Americana is a wild plum as is Prunus Domestica (sp. insititia).
Wild plums may often be the result of hybrids that have ' gone native ' over some time.
It could be argued that things like Cherry plums could be called 'wild'.
The true Wild plum is the Bullace which is a crossing of the Blackthorn
( Prunus Spinosa) and the Cherry plum (Prunus Cerasifolia.)
So you can see that it gets quite confusing as which are 'wild' and which are just seedlings found in the wild.
As a result any plum that is small in size is often called...a wild plum.
You may have been confused by the name. American plum seedlings.
Prunus Americana is a wild plum as is Prunus Domestica (sp. insititia).
Wild plums may often be the result of hybrids that have ' gone native ' over some time.
It could be argued that things like Cherry plums could be called 'wild'.
The true Wild plum is the Bullace which is a crossing of the Blackthorn
( Prunus Spinosa) and the Cherry plum (Prunus Cerasifolia.)
So you can see that it gets quite confusing as which are 'wild' and which are just seedlings found in the wild.
As a result any plum that is small in size is often called...a wild plum.