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Taxobox_begin | color = lightgreen | name = Plum Taxobox_image | image = Image:Plums hanging.jpg|250px | caption = Plums Taxobox_begin_placement | color = lightgreen Taxobox_regnum_entry | taxon = Plantae Taxobox_divisio_entry | taxon = Flowering plant|Magnoliophyta Taxobox_classis_entry | taxon = Magnoliopsida Taxobox ordo entry | taxon = Rosales Taxobox familia entry | taxon = Rosaceae Taxobox subfamilia entry | taxon = Prunoideae Taxobox genus entry | taxon = Prunus Taxobox_end_placement Taxobox_section_subdivision | color = lightgreen | plural_taxon = Genera Several, including:<br> Prunus domestica<br> Prunus insititia Prunus maritima<br> Prunus salicina Taxobox_end A plum is a Stone fruit|stone-fruit fruit tree|tree in the genus Prunus. Its fruit is sweet, juicy and edible, and it can be eaten fresh or used in jam-making or other recipes. Plum juice can be fermented into plum wine; when distilled, this produces a brandy known in Eastern Europe as Slivovitz. Dried plums are known as prunes. Prunes are sweet and juicy, and they have a very high dietary fiber content, so prune juice is often used to help regulate the functioning of the digestive system. It also contains several antioxidants that may slow aging. Prune marketers in the United States have, in recent years, begun marketing their product as "dried plums", because "prunes" has negative connotations of being unappetizing, and suitable only for the elderly. Prune kernel oil is made from the fleshy inner part of the pit of the plum. Plums come in a wide variety of colours and sizes. Some are much firmer-fleshed than others and some have yellow, white, green or red flesh, with equally varying skin colour. Plum varieties and species in use today include:<br> Species
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Image:PlumBlossom.JPG|left|thumbnail|200px|Plum blossom When it flowers in the early spring, a plum tree will be covered in blossom, and in a good year approximately 50% of the flowers will be pollinated and become plums. Flowering starts after 80 growing degree days. Image:Bluebyrd plum.jpg|thumb|180px|right|Bluebyrd plum If the weather is too dry the plums will not develop past a certain stage, but will fall from the tree while still tiny green buds, and if it is unseasonably wet or if the plums are not harvested as soon as they are ripe, the fruit may develop a fungal condition called brown rot. Brown rot is not toxic, and very small affected areas can be cut out of the fruit, but unless the rot is caught immediately the fruit will no longer be edible. Plum is used as a food plant by the larvae of some Lepidoptera including November Moth. Image:Prunusdmoestica01.jpg|thumb|left|250px|Prunus domestica - plum and leaves The plum blossom, along with the peony, are considered traditional floral emblems of China. In June 21, 1964, the Executive Yuan of the Republic of China officially designated the plum blossom to be its national flower, with the triple grouping of stamens (one long and two short) representing the Three Principles of the People and the five petals symbolizing the politics of Taiwan|five branches of the ROC government. http://www.mofa.gov.tw/webapp/np.asp?ctNode=446 The designation, repeats a previous statement by the ROC government in 1929. http://www.china.org.cn/english/environment/64698.htm It is native to Taiwan and has been increasingly used as the national emblem of the Republic of China, just as the 12-ray sun originated from the Kuomintang party flag. <br clear = all />
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Category:Fruit Category:Trees de:Pflaume fr:Prune gl:Ameixeira, froito eo:Pruno nl:Pruim pt:Ameixeira ja:ウメ sv:plommon he:שזיף This article is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License. It uses material from the Wikipedia article "Plum".
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