The plum tree in the garden is red-leaf plum. When the red fruit is ripe, it can be eaten in small quantities. Pay attention to whether the red-leaf plums in the garden are sprayed with pesticides. If so, you can't eat it. Red-leaf plum, a small deciduous tree in Rosaceae, is one of the ornamental plants in Chinese gardens. Its leaves are purple all year round, so it is suitable for planting in front of buildings, beside gardens or in the corner of lawns.

Purple leaf plum is a fruiting plant, which blooms in April and bears fruit in August. Red-leaf plum drupe is oblate, with a diameter of 1-3 cm. There are slight grooves, no stalks and depressions at the abdominal suture. When mature, it is yellow, red or purple, bright or slightly covered with white powder, with lovely appearance, bad taste, acidity and some bitterness. According to the analysis of forestry experts, the fruit of red-leaf plum is non-toxic and edible, but it has no nutritional value.

Because you may see red plum in community greening, or plant it beside the street, and accumulate a lot of harmful substances, experts advise you not to eat it.

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Can citizens eat ornamental plants in urban green spaces? Chen Shuang introduced that ornamental plants such as loquat, sweet-scented osmanthus, peach, purple plum, papaya and begonia are widely planted in urban parks, roads or residential areas. Some of these plants will bear fruit in the fruiting period, which not only has the value of ornamental fruit, but also enhances the aesthetic feeling of urban gardens.

Let citizens enjoy the leaves, flowers and fruits of plants in urban life, and feel the changes of the four seasons and the natural breath of life in the busy pace of life. But this "fruit" is a "fruit" that everyone has. Provided by urban landscape workers for public appreciation. The public should not pick it privately. If you take it off, everyone will not enjoy it.

At the same time, some citizens will directly pull branches when picking fruits and food, which will cause certain harm to plants. In the case of high temperature and rainy weather, it is easy to cause pests and diseases, which will affect the ornamental effect of plants to some extent. Therefore, the fruits of ornamental plants in urban gardens are inedible. In addition, the main use of urban garden plants is ornamental.

Conservation management is different from edible fruit trees. Most of the fertilizers used by garden plants are inorganic fertilizers, and garden plant management and protection personnel will regularly spray pesticides according to the growth of plants to prevent and control pests and diseases, so as to reflect the good landscape effect of urban gardens. Therefore, there will be pesticide residues in the fruits of garden plants, which are inedible and will affect the health of residents after eating.

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