Chinese plum
Prunus salicina Lindl.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 8.1 m
- wide
- 6.9 m
Rosaceae
Also called Japanese plum
Formerly Cerasus salicina
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.
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
- S. Russian Far East to China and N. Vietnam, TaiwanKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 6.1 m to 10 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Spread
- 4.6 m to 9.1 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -28.9 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 李 (南華李 中國李), 中國李, 李
- Spanish
- ciruelo chino
- Estonian
- pajulehine ploomipuu, hiina ploomipuu
- Czech
- slivoň vrbová
- Japanese
- スモモ, ニホンスモモ, 酢桃
- Chinese (China)
- 李, 李子, 中国李
- root
- bunuaz
- Korean
- 자도나무, 자두나무, 자두
- Russian
- Слива китайская
- French
- Prunier japonais, Prunier du Japon
- Portuguese
- Ameixeira-japonesa
- Finnish
- japaninluumu, Japaninluumu
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
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Prunus salicina (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.