It produces edible fruit, and its oval leaves may be purple, bronze, red or silver. The flowering plum tree (Prunus Ã blireana), USDA zones 6 through 8, is one of the most striking trees available for landscaping. A fruitless variety used for ornament or screening, it not only produces purple ovate leaves but showy pink flowers in spring or winter. Both trees take full sun to partial shade and moist soil in a variety of pH levels and types.
2. Dialects of Old English. Early Old English was not so much a language as a group of related dialects brought to southern Britain by Germanic invaders from the continental homelands during the fifth and sixth centuries AD.
Latin words have been borrowed into the English language as scientific and legal terms. Latin based words abound in our current language, since the Norman French invaded England in 1066. The Anglo-Saxon and Latin languages are both members of the Indo European language family. However, they are separated by many years and miles, causing the languages to develop differently.