#1931 most planted
Prunus maritima
Beach plum · also Graves' beach plum, Shore plum
14
trees mapped
0.00%
of all named trees
1
city
16 in
median trunk (41 cm, 14 measured)
11 yr
median age (100% have a planting date)
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Prunus maritima, known as the beach plum, is a species of shrub native to the East Coast of the United States. It is a resilient fruit crop for degraded lands and urban soils due to its salt tolerance and few pests, offering choice wild edible fruits.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 140.01%11 yr16 in
Traits
- Pollution tolerance
- High
- Tolerates
- coastal, salt
Trunk diameters across every city: median 16 in, mean 16 in, 90th percentile 24 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
- New England-Acadian forests
Other Prunus in the catalogue
60 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
