Prunus mume requires high planting environment, and there are few areas that can be planted and have high yield. It is most suitable for planting in Kashgar, Yining and Hotan. It can also grow normally in Guanzhong, Shaanxi, the north bank of Weihe River, Datong, Shanxi, Changli, Hebei and Shangqiu, Henan. Prunus mume can be cultivated on hillsides and beaches, but it is best to cultivate in areas with loose soil and smooth drainage. Plum blossoms are planted in the north of China, only scattered in the south, and the quality is not good.

Plum blossom is a plum plant in Rosaceae.

Plum blossom, deciduous tree, 6 to 15 meters high, wide oval crown, dark brown-gray trunk, cracked branches, no thorns or slightly thorns; The old branches are reddish brown, hairless, and the epidermis is uneven. Branchlets of the current year are reddish or grayish green, with longitudinal edges, slightly pubescent when they are young, and then fall off nearly glabrous. Winter buds are ovoid, reddish brown, and several scales are arranged in imbricate shape, usually hairless. Leaf blade elliptic or obovate, 4 4- 10/0cm long, 2.5-5cm wide, acute or obtuse at the apex, sparse and short, wedge-shaped at the base, occasionally broad wedge-shaped, with sparse and obtuse serrations at the edge, dark green at the top, hairless or pilose on the veins, light green at the bottom, eyelashes at the edge, 5-9 pairs of lateral veins, and bending toward the top instead of. Petiole length 1 to 2 cm, densely pilose, usually with a gland on each side of the leaf base edge; Stipules linear, apex acuminate, usually glandular at the margin when young, caducous. Flowers 1 to 3, clustered at the top of short branches; Pedicel length 1 to 1.2 cm, glabrous or pubescent; The flower diameter is 1 to1.5cm; Calyx tube bell-shaped, sepals oval, calyx tube and sepals are pubescent inside and outside; Petals are white, sometimes with green rings. Drupe is usually ovoid to oblong, sparse and nearly spherical, with a diameter of 1 ~ 2.5 cm, usually with obvious lateral grooves, red, purple, green, yellow and often blue fruit powder, and the pulp falls off or sticks; The nucleus is oval, sharp, smooth, uneven or slightly honeycomb-shaped; Pedicel is about 65438 0.2 cm long and glabrous. Flowering in May, bearing fruit in September.

Prunes are usually strong in appearance and leafy. If water and fertilizer are sufficient, the average growth of 1 annual branches will reach 1m, and the trunk will reach 3.5m and crown width will reach 2.5m after planting for 4 years. Plum blossom has higher germination ability and lower branching ability, and it is easy to form flower buds, which can account for more than 2/3 of the total number of buds. General 1 year-old branches can form a large number of flower buds. Most varieties are self-flowering, bearing fruit in the second to third year after planting, and the fruit setting rate is high. Fruits are mainly short branches and bouquets, and generally enter the full fruit stage after 4 years. Plum blossom is cold-resistant, drought-resistant and adaptable, which can basically avoid the harm of late frost in the north. Even in the year of late frost, some varieties can maintain a high seed setting rate.