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Prunus × blireiana

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Prunus × blireiana
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Prunus
Species:
P. × blireiana
Binomial name
Prunus × blireiana

Prunus × blireiana (or blireana), the purple-leafed plum[1] or double-flowering plum,[2] is an ornamental flowering plant hybrid in the genus Prunus. It is a cross between the Japanese apricot (Prunus mume) and the purple-leaved plum cultivar Prunus cerasifera 'Pissardii'.[1][3]

Growing to 4 m (13 ft) tall and broad, it is a hardy deciduous medium-sized shrub or small tree, with rich pink, slightly scented, double blooms in Spring. The blossom is followed by reddish-purple tinged leaves which turn green as the season progresses.[4]

Etymology

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The plant was named for the town of Bléré, near Tours, France, and raised by the Lemoine nursery c. 1905. [5]

Homotypic synonyms

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Prunus cerasifera var. blireana (André) Bean in Trees & Shrubs Brit. Isles 2: 232 (1914) Prunus pissardii blireana (André) Lemoine in Nursery Cat. (Lemoine) 164: 14 (1906)

Heterotypic synonyms

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Prunus × blireana f. flore-pleno André in Rev. Hort. (Paris) 77: 392 (1905), not validly publ. Prunus × blireiana f. moseri (Rehder) Koehne in Mitt. Deutsch. Dendrol. Ges. 26: 71 (1917 publ. 1918) Prunus cerasifera var. moseri Rehder in Möller's Deutsche Gärtn.-Zeitung 20: 405 (1905)

References

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  1. ^ a b "Prunus x blireana - Burke's Backyard".
  2. ^ "Prunus x blireana | GardensOnline".
  3. ^ "Prunus × blireiana | Landscape Plants | Oregon State University".
  4. ^ "Prunus × blireana". RHS. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
  5. ^ Lemoine, E. (1906) Lemoine, Cat. No. 164: 14