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purple leaf plum #93691 April 24th, 2006 at 07:15 AM
Joined: May 2005 Richmond, Indiana PlantFaerie OP Member
OP PlantFaerie Member Joined: May 2005 Richmond, Indiana	Hopefully There are folks here who can tell me what this beautiful flowering tree I have is and if it would be fairly easy to grow little ones from clippings. Sorry the pics are a bit fuzzy, my digital camera is at a friends so we used DH's camera phone to take them.

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Re: purple leaf plum #93692 April 24th, 2006 at 07:51 AM
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melcon6 Member Joined: Sep 2002 Coastal Maine	It looks like a purpleleaf sandcherry Prunus x cistena.

Re: purple leaf plum #93693 April 24th, 2006 at 07:54 AM
Joined: Aug 2004 Washington, the state that is.... Triss Member
Triss Member Joined: Aug 2004 Washington, the state that is....	Sure is pretty!

Re: purple leaf plum #93694 April 24th, 2006 at 09:39 AM
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Anonymous Unregistered A	yup, i agree! whatever it is, it sure is pretty!!

Re: purple leaf plum #93695 April 25th, 2006 at 02:22 AM
Joined: Apr 2005 SoCal via WV R RugbyHukr Member
RugbyHukr Member R Joined: Apr 2005 SoCal via WV	cistena are usually multi-trunk & shrublike in growth. i would go with thundercloud plum #2 growth habit cistena growth

Re: purple leaf plum #93696 April 26th, 2006 at 05:01 AM
Joined: Apr 2006 Unionville, Virginia Budman Member
Budman Member Joined: Apr 2006 Unionville, Virginia	Plantfaerie, I agree with Rugbyhukr that it is more in the purple leaf plum family than the sandcherry which is usually more bush like. Whichever it is, it sure looks happy!!

Re: purple leaf plum #93697 April 26th, 2006 at 11:15 AM
Joined: Apr 2006 Seattle, WA, USA earthnut Member
earthnut Member Joined: Apr 2006 Seattle, WA, USA	a prunus species. there are many purple leaf plums.

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