Chinese plum
Prunus mume (Siebold) Siebold & Zucc.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 5.3 m
- wide
- 5.3 m
Rosaceae
Also called Japanese apricot, Ume
Formerly Armeniaca mume, Prunopsis mume
When it flowers
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Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
PetsNC State Extension lists it as toxic to dogs, cats and horses (25 Oct 2026)
PeopleNo safety information yet
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- SC. China to N. Indo-ChinaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 4.6 m to 6.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 4.6 m to 6.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, red, pinkRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -23.3 °C (USDA zone 6a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Simplified Chinese
- 酸梅, 春梅, 梅
- Chinese
- 梅
- Catalan
- Albercoquer japonès
- German
- Ume
- Esperanto
- Umeo
- Persian
- پرونوس مومه
- Finnish
- Japaninaprikoosi
- French
- Abricotier du Japon
- Upper Sorbian
- Japanski aprikozowc
- Japanese
- ウメ（梅）
- Korean
- 매실나무
- Lithuanian
- Japoninis abrikosas
Where this comes from
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- 3D model: Prunus mume (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.