Mexican Plum
Prunus mexicana S.Watson
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Little
- tall
- 8.0 m
- wide
- —
Rosaceae
Also called Woolly-leaf American plum, Mexican plum
Formerly Prunus fultonensis, Prunus lanata, Prunus polyandra, Prunus reticulata
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
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- C. & SE. U.S.A. to NE. MexicoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from Plants For A Future, one source
- Height
- 4.5 m to 12 mRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Water
- Little: takes droughtRead from Wikipedia and Plants For A Future, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: Wikipedia low; Plants For A Future medium
- Flowers
- White, pinkRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -28.9 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from Wikipedia and Plants For A Future, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
Not known yet: spread, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (8)
- Spanish
- Ciruelo mexicano
- Russian
- Слива мексиканская
- Czech
- švestkovišeň mexická
- Chinese (China)
- 巨树李
- Chinese
- 巨樹李
- French
- prunier du Mexique
- Slovak
- slivka mexická
- Lithuanian
- Meksikinė slyva
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
- Plants For A Future, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Prunus mexicana (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.