Prunus triloba Lindl.
Flowering plum, Flowering plum, flowering almond, yu ye mei
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Summary
Prunus triloba, sometimes called flowering plum or flowering almond, a name shared with Prunus jacquemontii, is a shrubby cherry, sometimes becoming a small tree. The flowers are pale pink or white, and the fruit are red and "pubescent", i.e. with soft hair. It originates from China but is popular around the world as an ornamental.
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About the genus · Prunus
Prunus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs from the rose family (Rosaceae) that produce stone fruits, or drupes. As of March 2024, the genus has about 340 accepted species, including almonds, apricots, cherries, peaches, and plums. It has a cosmopolitan distribution, being native to the temperate regions of North America, the neotropics of South America, and temperate and tropical regions of Eurasia and Africa.
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At a glance
Also known as Amygdalopsis lindleyi Carrière; Amygdalus lindleyi Carrière; Amygdalus pedunculata Bunge; Amygdalus pedunculata var. multiplex Bunge; Amygdalus pedunculata var. polygyna Bunge and 31 more.
Cultivation
Grouped as a temperate garden plant by the genus Prunus, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum; the cold floor is the habitat's alone, and no prose comes from the table.
Its year Rain rule: a summer growing season, June to September in the northern hemisphere (June to September at the habitat, northern).
This species’ habitat figures, and what two fixed rules read from them.
The rain rule reads a summer growing season: 70% of the year's rain (447 mm of 590 mm) falls in June to September, warmer than the year (wet-season mean 21.2 °C against a yearly mean of 9.3 °C). Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: December to March.
Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the envelope cells: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve gives a season to reverse. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.
Rain Habitat rain 590 mm a year, wettest July at 159 mm, driest January at 3 mm (habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
590 mm a year at the habitat, 447 mm of it June to September. Wettest month July at 159 mm, driest January at 3 mm; 2 months under 5 mm. Across the envelope cells the year's total runs 381 mm to 1223 mm (10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year) (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; habitat calendar, northern hemisphere).
CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the envelope cells. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.
Light Open sky over the habitat: 15 to 39 mol/m²/day.
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Open sky over the habitat: 15 to 39 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 12, the highest 90th-percentile month 41).
CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.
Warmth and air Cold floor -18.9 °C (1st-percentile habitat night, NASA POWER).
This species’ habitat figures, with their source.
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell is -18.9 °C, the absolute minimum -28.0 °C, about 140 frost nights a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 34.2 °C. Monthly means: coldest night -12.7 °C in January (across the envelope cells -21.3 °C to -4.2 °C), warmest day 27.6 °C in July (median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). Cold floor: -18.9 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at the typical cell (NASA POWER).
NASA POWER daily minima and maxima 1981–2024 at the typical cell, lapse-corrected to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA. The cold floor is the figure named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.
Relative humidity at the habitat: 48 to 61% across the year (monthly means, median year across the envelope cells, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.
CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the envelope cells.
The figures the cards read from are in Climate below, and where they came from in Natural habitat.
Climate across the habitat
Figures by month
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | -1 / -10–5 | 2 / -5–9 | 8 / 2–14 | 16 / 11–22 | 22 / 17–28 | 26 / 21–32 | 28 / 23–32 | 26 / 23–30 | 22 / 18–26 | 15 / 11–20 | 7 / 1–13 | 0 / -7–7 |
| Night °C | -13 / -21–-4 | -9 / -18–-2 | -3 / -9–3 | 4 / -1–9 | 10 / 5–15 | 16 / 11–20 | 19 / 14–23 | 18 / 13–22 | 12 / 7–17 | 5 / -1–11 | -4 / -9–3 | -10 / -18–-2 |
| Rain mm | 3 / 2–20 | 5 / 3–24 | 14 / 9–46 | 28 / 19–67 | 50 / 34–96 | 86 / 58–140 | 159 / 96–220 | 136 / 78–189 | 66 / 44–124 | 28 / 18–54 | 11 / 6–46 | 4 / 3–21 |
| DLI | 17 / 15–19 | 23 / 20–25 | 30 / 27–32 | 36 / 33–37 | 39 / 36–41 | 38 / 34–41 | 33 / 30–38 | 31 / 29–34 | 28 / 26–30 | 23 / 20–25 | 17 / 14–19 | 15 / 12–17 |
| RH % | 52 / 46–61 | 50 / 46–60 | 48 / 45–57 | 48 / 44–57 | 49 / 46–59 | 54 / 51–62 | 61 / 56–66 | 61 / 57–65 | 56 / 54–62 | 53 / 50–59 | 52 / 48–58 | 51 / 46–60 |
Each figure is the median across the 145 grid cells holding the 186 in-range records, with the 10th–90th percentile span across those cells after the slash where it differs. Extremes and elevation were read at the typical cell 992:6047 (40.375, 122.375). Over 44 years there: absolute minimum -28.0 °C, 1st-percentile night -18.9 °C, 99th-percentile day 34.2 °C. Normals: CHELSA V2.1 1981–2010 climatology, 0.05° cells (each the mean of ~36 1 km pixels). Envelope: median and 10th–90th percentile of each month across the 145 distinct grid cells holding the 186 in-range records; extremes and elevation at the typical cell 992:6047 (its coldest month's mean night nearest the median across cells); its position is the cell centre. Extremes: NASA POWER (MERRA-2) daily 1981–2024, cell 40.50_122.500, lapse-corrected -89 m at 6.5 °C/km. Elevation: ETOPO 2022, 13 m (cell mean).
Natural habitat
Photographs
Photographs: no rights reserved · CC0 (2); (c) Urgamal Magsar, some rights reserved (CC BY) (5); (c) Jane Charlen, some rights reserved (CC BY).
Photographs: iNaturalist did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.
Papers naming this species
Works whose title or abstract names Prunus triloba, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.
Related
Similar habitat climate the 6 species whose habitat climate is nearest this one's: mean day and night, month by month, and rain on a log scale, in calendar order, so a habitat with the same seasons six months out is far, not near. Nothing else counts: not range, not family.
Orostachys fimbriata Fimbriate rock pine
Prunus tomentosa Chinese bus
Viburnum farreri Culver's root
Syringa pubescens Daphne lilac
Cotoneaster acutifolius Ampfield CotoneasterOther Prunus 29 in the reference
Prunus americana American Plum
Prunus amygdalus Almond
Prunus avium Bird Cherry
Prunus campanulata Formosan cherry
Prunus caroliniana Carolina laurel cherry
Prunus cerasifera Cherry Plum
Prunus cerasus Amarelle Cherry
Prunus domestica Bullace plum
Prunus glandulifolia Amur choke cherry
Prunus ilicifolia Hollyleaf Cherry
Prunus laurocerasus Cherry Laurel all 30 ›History & registers
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