Mexican Plum, Fall Plum, Bigree Plum

Problem-free native tree here in the Blackland Prairie. Very showy white blooms cover the tree in early spring. The small fruit is a fa...Read Morevorite of birds and wildlife and it makes an amazing tart jam. Lives on rain water once established.

Trees in bloom are as showy as any prunus.

Native range extends from San Louis Potosi (Z10b) to South Dakota (at least Z5a...Read More) (Wikipedia)

I grew up on a farm that had a few of these - they were old trees then, about 50 years ago. About 5 years ago, a woman in her 80s told u...Read Mores she picked these plums back when she was a child, and showed us the old, gnarled tree still on my father's land. Dad let them spread, so now he has probably 10 acres of these. I still have seen very few in the wild, other than my parents' place. They make the BEST jelly! Tart and tasty! But my granny and dad never picked them off the tree - they gathered them off the ground. Granny said if they were still on the tree, they weren't ripe enough for Jelly. The good thing is they seem to have no pests - unlike other plums we had (in the orchard), insects don't seem to want to bother them. They get ripe from July through the end of August, depending on the tree - the trees in our field ripen at different times.

This is a drought and heat tolerant small tree. The white blossoms are fairly showy. The leaves can sometimes turn shades from yellow t...Read Moreo orange in the fall. A very hardy, low-maintenance tree for well-drained areas.