Chickasaw Plum

I have the "Guthrie" selection which bore fruit last year (second year I had it). It has a single-trunk habit and a sweet, desert qualit...Read Morey, yellow, golf ball sized fruit. Nice as any other plum from the grocery store. The seeds sprouted easily in damp moss so it is going to be interesting to see if the seedlings have the same high quality fruit as the parent.

A wonderful native shrub and a great choice for planting under power lines or in other areas where a relatively short tree is desired....Read More />
They can be interplanted with Redbud Trees (Cercis canadensis) and Dogwoods (Cornus florida) for simultaneous flowering times, along with azaleas and camelias.

Chickasaw Plum trees DO sucker, but not so badly as to be "invasive" in my opinion. They will have one or two sucker plants come up from the root system within about 6 ft of the parent plant just about each year. The suckers are easily dug and transplanted and also respond well to being potted up to pass along to other gardeners.

Jeremy

One of the few flowering, small trees that grows in the deep/coastal South. Fairly slow to grow -- mine is about 5 feet after 4 years. Th...Read Moreat's a very slow growth rate for trees in Central Florida. Eventually they reach 15 feet, but, as one commentator remarks here, that's about the time they begin to decline. No fear -- they are pretty prolific self-sowers. Dig them up to share. I don't know them to sucker, as another remarks. Perhaps these are just seedlings.

My friend has dozens of these growing in large clumps (mostly as undergrowth in partial shade) throughout her yard. In the spring, the show of tiny white flowers that covers every branch is remarkable -- typically right around the time that azaleas bloom. Older specimens produce quite a lot of fruit, but it takes several years. (See my photo.) The fruit has very high wildlife value, and though it makes some ok jam, it's better left to the birds.

Though deciduous, its bark has a fairly good ornamental value -- it peels to reveal tan wood beneath cinammon-colored bark.

This is one tough and carefree tree, plus a native to most of the Southeast.

Excellent fruit, no maintenance, beautiful flowers. Grows wild in Carolina Sandhills on dry, sandy ridgelines and abandoned agricultural ...Read Morefields. Very hardy species.