Beach Plum
Prunus maritima Marshall
- light
- Full sun
- water
- —
- tall
- 2.0 m
- wide
- —
Rosaceae
Also called Beach plum
Formerly Cerasus cerasifera, Cerasus littoralis, Cerasus pubescens, Cerasus pygmaea, and 11 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- ShrubKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- NE. U.S.A. to VirginiaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from Wikipedia, one source
- Height
- 1.8 m to 2.3 mRead from Wikipedia and Plants for a Future, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: Wikipedia 1–2 m; Plants for a Future 2.5–2.5 m
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -40 °C (USDA zone 3a)Read from Plants for a Future, one source
Not known yet: spread, water, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (6)
- Estonian
- rand-ploomipuu
- Czech
- švestkovišeň pomořská
- Chinese
- 海滩李, 海濱李, 海滨李
- Spanish
- Ciruela Playera
- Slovak
- slivka prímorská
- Chinese (China)
- 海滨李
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Plants for a Future, read 2026-10-26, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Prunus maritima (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.