Prunus spinosa person with dark eyes comes from the fruit, and is first attested in A. J. Wilson's 1867 novel "Vashti". The foliage is sometimes eaten by the larvae of Lepidoptera, including the small eggar moth, emperor moth, willow beauty, white-pinion spotted, common emerald, November moth, pale November moth, mottled pug, green pug, brimstone moth, feathered thorn, brown-tail, yellow-tail, short-cloaked moth, lesser yellow underwing, lesser broad-bordered yellow underwing, double square-spot, black and brown hairstreaks, hawthorn moth ("Scythropia crataegella") and the case-bearer moth "Coleophora anatipennella". Dead blackthorn wood provides food for the caterpillars of the concealer moth "Esperia oliviella". The pocket plum gall
Prunus pumila leathery, long, with a serrated margin. The flowers are in diameter with five white petals and 25–30 stamens. They are produced in small clusters of two to four. The fruit is a small cherry diameter, ripening dark purple in early summer. "Prunus × cistena" (purple leaf sand cherry) is a hybrid of "Prunus cerasifera" (Cherry Plum) and "Prunus pumila". It was developed by Niels Ebbesen Hansen of South Dakota State University in 1910. Prunus pumila Prunus pumila, commonly called sand cherry, is a North American species of cherry in the rose family. It is widespread in eastern and central Canada