Plum

Plums are temperate fruits which when mature are often covered by a wax coating called "wax bloom". This gives them a bluish-grey appearance. This page provides some basic information on plums or prunes, together with plum photos and some proverbs and quotes about plums.

Basic information on plum

Scientific name:	Prunus domestica
English:	Plum
English:	Prune
English:	Common plum
English:	European plum
Dutch:	Pruim
Dutch:	Pruimenboom
Dutch:	Europese cultuurpruim
Dutch:	Kwets
Spanish:	Ciruelo
French:	Prunier
French:	Prune
German:	Pflaume
German:	Kultur-Pflaume
Italian:	Susino
Italian:	Susina
Italian:	Prugna

Family:	Rosaceae
Order:	Rosales

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Evergreen or deciduous:	Deciduous
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Fruits:	Plum fruits are juicy with a sweet but sometimes tart taste (especially the skin).
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Harvesting:	Hand picking, or shaking the tree and picking them up.
Uses:	Usually eaten fresh. Sometimes used to make plum wine. Some plums are sold dried. Plums have a laxative effect.

Plums

A black plum is as sweet as a white.
A cherry year, a merry year; a plum year, a dumb year.
If heaven above lets fall a plum, open your mouth.
Receive a plum, return a peach.
The higher the tree, the sweeter the plum
There's no making apples of plums.
You need plant only one cherry and one plum tree.
Like a prune, you are not getting any better looking, but you are getting sweeter. (N. D. Stice)

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree? (Logan Pearsall Smith)
Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes. (Frank Lloyd Wright)
The end of a novel, like the end of a children's dinner-party, must be made up of sweetmeats and sugar-plums. (Anthony Trollope)

No recipe yet with plum. If you know one, please send me a message.