Fruit beariing purple leaf plum

I planted a purple leaf plum tree in my back yard about 5 years ago. The tree always had a lot of blooms in the spring and several plums developed as a result. It was a beautiful tree but something happened over this past winter and the tree died. I have been looking for a replacement but have not found a purple leaf plum that is fruit bearing. All I seem to find are ornamental varieties. Does anyone know where I can find a purple leaf plum that's fruit bearing? Thanks....Doug

I thought the fruit bearing purple leaf plums were happy accidents - ornamental crosses that didn't know they were ornamentals. I don't know that there is a type with a name - but if there is, I'd be interested in knowing what it is, too. I have a half dozen wild plums and sand cherries in my yard. No two look alike - even the ones that were supposed to be the same thing from the same source.

The Hollywood plum is purple leaved.

http://www.raintreenursery.com/catalog/productdetails.cfm?ProductID=C130

Hello Pollengarden, Yours is the only response I have gotten so far but I will let you know if someone comes up with an answer. I guess I was just lucky that the original one was fruit bearing. I know that I see a lot of purple leaf plum trees in this area none are fruit bearing that I know of. I have several of the sand cherries too, but they have green leaves on the ones I have. I just like the purple leaves, I think they are much more attractive. And the purple plums blend in so that the birds don't seem to bother them as much. Of course, when they do get ripe, the birds can smell it and will clean the crop if you are not on top of the situation!

Hello L Tilton, Thanks for the note. I went to the Raintree site - the picture they have looks like the leaves are more green than purple. I guess the picture is not a good representation. The name Hollywood concerns me - one of the local nursery people I talked with said that the tree I had may have been killed by the harsh cold winter we had this past season. I planted the tree 5 years ago when we first moved here (from CA) and the first four winters were pretty mild but we had a week in January that the temperature never got above freezing. If it was a Hollywood, that may have been the demise!

One of the grafts on my 4 in 1 plum tree is a Hollywood. Its leaves are deep, dark purple.

We are colder here than you are, often below 0, and the tree has not suffered from it.

The leaves on my Hollywood plum are much darker. It has fruit for the first time — dark purple as well.
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Thanks for all the responses. I'll see about ordering the Hollywood variety from Raintree or wherever this fall. It's already to late for planting this spring.