General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Shrub
Tree
Water Preferences: Mesic
Leaves: Deciduous
Fruit: Showy
Flowers: Showy
Flower Color: White
Flower Time: Late winter or early spring
Spring
Uses: Flowering Tree
Edible Parts: Fruit
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Pollinators: Various insects

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Common names
  • Mirabelle Plum
  • Plum
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Prunus domestica subsp. insititia
  • Synonym: Prunus insititia
Also sold as:
  • Drap d'Or

Photo Gallery

Date: c. 1911
photo from Hedrick's 'Plums of New York', 1911

UK National Fruit Collection photo
Comments:
  • Posted by robertduval14 (Milford, New Hampshire - Zone 5b) on Mar 21, 2016 8:43 PM concerning plant:
    Thought to have come from the East to France in the 1400s.

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