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beaches are a sparse, unforgiving environment. The Beach Plum tree is truly a specialist. The Beach Plum tree is also known as the Seaside Plum, Sand Plum and Graves’ Plum tree. Don’t want suckers? Then remove them and develop a single trunked tree or single bush. “Suckering” is when the tree’s roots push new shoots to the surface, which then develops into a new tree! Suckering is ideal for erosion control, creating a hedge, fence line, windbreak, etc. Flowers are pollinated by pollinators such as honeybees, bumblebees, butterflies, moths, flies, and wasps.Īll wild plum trees “sucker” (except for the Mexican Plum). Unlike cultivars, all wild plum trees are self-pollinating! Their flowers are hermaphrodite - flowers have organs from the male (stamens) and female & carpels). However, their fruit are smaller and flavors vary.
Also, they are commonly grown as a hedgerow, on a fence line, and used for erosion control. On the other hand, Wild plum trees are more disease resistant, adaptable to more soils, require less water, and tolerate shade better.
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On the other hand, wild plum trees are specialists are fill many niches that cultivars do not. they produce the fruit we buy in a store, and they are 95% of Plum trees sold at nurseries. “Cultivar” Plum trees are domesticated plants.