Plant: Au Rosa - Plum Tree
Plum Tree · Prunus salicina 'AU Rosa'
Size: 5 gal
Light
Bloom
Mature size
More about this plant
An Auburn University plum selection carrying white, cup shaped, five petalled flowers in spring followed by deep red fruit about 1.5 to 2 inches across with sweet, juicy golden-yellow flesh. The tree is rounded, medium growing and deciduous, with green serrate leaves 3 to 6 inches long. It needs full sun and a deep, well drained loam to sandy clay loam, and Clemson recommends spacing plum trees 18 to 22 feet apart at a soil pH near 6.0 to 6.5. Flowers draw butterflies and pollinators, making it a productive edible garden or lawn tree. All parts other than the ripe fruit are reported toxic to dogs, cats and horses.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 33 ft tall and 30 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 6-8
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
An Auburn University plum selection carrying white, cup shaped, five petalled flowers in spring followed by deep red fruit about 1.5 to 2 inches across with sweet, juicy golden-yellow flesh. The tree is rounded, medium growing and deciduous, with green serrate leaves 3 to 6 inches long. It needs full sun and a deep, well drained loam to sandy clay loam, and Clemson recommends spacing plum trees 18 to 22 feet apart at a soil pH near 6.0 to 6.5. Flowers draw butterflies and pollinators, making it a productive edible garden or lawn tree. All parts other than the ripe fruit are reported toxic to dogs, cats and horses.
- Flowers
- White, cup-shaped, five-petaled flowers appear in the spring.
- Fruit
- Deep red skinned plums about 1.5 to 2 inches across with sweet, juicy golden-yellow flesh, ripening early in the season.
- Native range
- Russia, China, Vietnam and Taiwan (species)
