Plums: bloom from November to March.

Plum blossoms: bloom in winter and spring, the exact month is variable, fruiting in May-June.

Plum as a Chinese specialty of the traditional valuable ornamental flowers and trees, has a long history of cultivation and rich culture of plum. Ancient poets called the plum a cold guest. It is also called winter plum because it opens in winter. Wax plum flowers bloom before spring, for the first of a hundred flowers, especially the tiger's foot plum, the lunar calendar in October that is released flowers, so people called early plum.

Wax plum first flowers after the leaves, flowers and leaves do not meet, wax plum blossoms when the branches are dry and thin, so it is also known as dry branch plum. Lapis lazuli bloom day is more snow, to appreciate the Lapis lazuli, to be after the snow, snow to, so it is also known as snow plum. And because of the waxberry flowers into the winter early release, the end of winter and fruit, accompanied by winter, so it is also known as winter plum.

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Value of plum blossoms:

Plum blossom variants and varieties are extremely numerous, can be divided into two categories of flowering plum and fruit plum. Flowering plum mainly for ornamental. Fruit plum fruit is mainly for processing or medicinal purposes, generally processed into a variety of preserves and jams; with the processing of green plums made of umeboshi for medicinal purposes, for astringent, can cure dysentery, and cough, expectorant, antipyretic, insecticidal and other efficacy, but also for the extraction of raw materials for the citric acid; buds can be appetizer dispersal of depression, phlegm, blood detoxification; the root of the research powder to treat anthrax is effective.

The plant is sensitive to hydrogen fluoride pollution, and can be used to monitor the atmospheric fluoride line contamination. The immature fruit contains citric acid, malic acid, succinic acid, etc.; the seed contains bitter amygdalin; the flower contains volatile oil, the oil contains benzaldehyde, benzoic acid, etc..

Baidu Encyclopedia - Plum

Baidu Encyclopedia - Plum Blossom