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The scientific name of purple leaf plum is red leaf plum, and our fruit plum, it is also a small deciduous tree in the genus Li, family Rosaceae. Purple leaf plum is a famous foliage species, the leaves have been purple red, small flowers, short flowering period, fruit purple red, long fruit period.

In the garden greening, lone planting, column planting, piece planting, group planting can be, suitable for planting in the street, flower beds, around the building, both sides of the road application. Pay attention to color matching in the configuration, you can give full play to the beauty of its color. Therefore, the basic application attribute of purple leaf plum is a gardening tree, not a fruit tree.

Growth habit

The purple plum likes sunshine, warm and humid climate, and has a certain drought-resistant ability. It is adaptable to the soil, intolerant of drought, more tolerant of water and moisture, but grows well in fertile, deep, well-drained clay neutral, acidic soil, not alkali tolerant. Sandy gravel soil is good, clay soil can also grow, shallow root system, sprouting force is strong.

Purple leaf plum is native to Xinjiang, growing in the forests of mountain slopes or gravelly slopes and canyons and water's edge, etc., at an altitude of 800-2000 meters. It is distributed in Central Asia, Tian Shan, Iran, Asia Minor, and the Balkan Peninsula.