Prunus domestica their sweetness and tartness may vary, their colors varying from bluish-purple to red, orange, yellow or light green. Prunus domestica Prunus domestica (sometimes referred to as "Prunus × domestica") is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. A deciduous tree, it includes many varieties of the fruit trees known as plums in English, though not all plums belong to this species. The greengages and damsons also belong to subspecies of "P. domestica". Its hybrid parentage was believed to be "Prunus spinosa" and "Prunus cerasifera".; however recent cytogenetic evidence seem to implicate 2x, 4x, 6x "P. cerasifera" as the
Prunus tangutica Prunus tangutica Prunus tangutica () is a species of wild peach native to China. Based on its fruit traits it had been considered a wild almond, but genetic and morphological studies have shown that it is more closely related to "Prunus persica", the cultivated peach, with its closest relative being "Prunus mongolica". It is a very dense spiny shrub or shrubby tree, usually 1 to 2.5m tall but reaching 4m, preferring to grow on sunny slopes and alongside streams at 1500 to 2600m, but found as high as 3400m. Its flower petals are a pale pink, and its velutinous (velvety)