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It produces fragrant, five-petaled pale pink to white flowers in spring roughly 1″ inch across that sometimes forms a small edible fruit. All are small decorative trees with a vase-shaped habit. It goes by many names, Purple Twist Plum, KV plum, Thundercloud, and Newport plum, to name a few. Poisonous to Humans: Poison Severity: Low Poison Symptoms: Stems, leaves, seeds contain cyanide, particularly toxic in the process of wilting: brick red mucous membranes, dilated pupils, difficulty breathing, panting, shock.The purple leaf plum tree, Prunus cerasifera, is popular in landscape design for it’s deer and javelina-proof ornament quality.Landscape: Landscape Location: Lawn Landscape Theme: Cottage Garden Design Feature: Foundation Planting Screen/Privacy Small groups Specimen Attracts: Bees Small Mammals Songbirds Resistance To Challenges: Drought Salt Problems: Frequent Disease Problems Messy Problem for Cats Problem for Dogs Problem for Horses.Stem: Stem Color: Brown/Copper Red/Burgundy Stem Is Aromatic: No Stem Form: Straight Stem Description: Reddish-brown stems.

Bark: Bark Color: Dark Brown Surface/Attachment: Fissured Bark Description: Bark dark brown and fissured.

Petioles have minute, pimple-like glands at the blade base, or lack them altogether.

Leaves: Woody Plant Leaf Characteristics: Deciduous Leaf Color: Purple/Lavender Red/Burgundy Leaf Value To Gardener: Showy Leaf Type: Simple Leaf Arrangement: Alternate Leaf Shape: Elliptical Obovate Ovate Leaf Margin: Crenate Dentate Hairs Present: No Leaf Length: < 1 inch Leaf Description: Leaves are 2-4 inches long and 1-2 inches wide with alternate leaf arrangement, ovate to oval to obovate, acute, rotund to broadly cuneate, dentately-crenate, glabrate, and is typically reddish-purple all season.

Flowers: Flower Color: White Flower Inflorescence: Head Flower Value To Gardener: Fragrant Flower Bloom Time: Spring Flower Shape: Saucer Star Flower Petals: 4-5 petals/rays Flower Size: < 1 inch Flower Description: Flowers are solitary, 1-inch wide, 5-petaled, white, fragrant, and bloom just before leaves are borne in the spring.

5 to 1.5-inch fleshy fruits are reddish-purple drupes are produced prolifically and are edible by wildlife and humans.

Fruit: Fruit Color: Red/Burgundy Fruit Value To Gardener: Edible Display/Harvest Time: Summer Fruit Type: Drupe Fruit Length: < 1 inch Fruit Width: < 1 inch Fruit Description.

PURPLE LEAF PLUM FULL

Cultural Conditions: Light: Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day) Soil Texture: Clay Loam (Silt) Sand Soil pH: Acid (8.0) Neutral (6.0-8.0) Soil Drainage: Good Drainage Moist NC Region: Coastal Mountains Piedmont USDA Plant Hardiness Zone: 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b, 9a, 9b.Whole Plant Traits: Plant Type: Tree Woody Plant Leaf Characteristics: Deciduous Habit/Form: Rounded Vase Growth Rate: Rapid Maintenance: Medium Texture: Medium.Edibility: The fruit is sweet but rather tasteless Dimensions: Height: 15 ft. Attributes: Genus: Prunus Species: cerasifera Family: Rosaceae Life Cycle: Woody Country Or Region Of Origin: Parent plant is from Asia Wildlife Value: Birds and small mammals are attracted to the fruit.Tags: #deciduous #small tree #drought tolerant #white flowers #shrub #pink flowers #purple leaves #deciduous shrub #salt tolerant #showy leaves #spring flowers #messy #fantz #problem for cats #problem for dogs #problem for horses #frequent insect problems #frequent disease problems See this plant in the following landscape: Cultivars / Varieties: Leaves with minute glands at the petiole, or may lack these altogether.Deciduous tree with reddish-purple foliage all season.Problems: Susceptible to Aphids, Beetle Borers, Caterpillars, Scales and Spider Mites, Armillaria, Root Rot, Rust, Sooty Mold and Verticillium Leaf color is best when grown in full sun. Purpleleaf plum isn't picky about soil type or pH and is moderately drought tolerant once established. They are fairly short-lived and susceptible to insects and diseases.

The leaves maintain their color most of the year.

Purpleleaf Plum is a shrub to a small tree in the rose family that grows 15-25 feet tall and wide with a vase to a rounded shape. The reddish-purple leaves are the attraction to this plant along with the showy white spring flowers. Phonetic Spelling PROO-nus ser-as-IF-er-a This plant has low severity poison characteristics.