The difference between plums, cherries, apricots, peaches and plums

Plums, cherries, apricots, peaches and plums are all common fruits in people's daily life, and they are all Rosaceae plants. There are indeed many similarities in appearance, so that many friends can't distinguish them very well. Let's take a look at the differences between them.

Plum

Plum is the fruit of fruit plum tree, which is cultivated all over China. It is the most in the provinces south of the Yangtze River valley. It is a small tree of Rosaceae apricot, also known as green plum, sour plum, etc., with a height of 4-10 meters, solitary flowers or sometimes 2 flowers born together in a bud, fruit nearly spherical, 2-3 cm in diameter, yellow or green-white, pilose, sour, nuclear oval, flowering in winter and spring, fruiting in May-June.

Cherry

Cherry alias cherry cherry, warbler, thorn, wedge, English peach, cow, cherry bead, peach, agate, cherry bead, etc., are Rosaceae plum trees with a height of 2-6 meters, gray-white bark, inflorescences corymbose or nearly umbrella-shaped, 3-6 flowers, first leaves open, drupe nearly spherical, red, 0.9-1.3 cm in diameter, flowering from March to April, fruit from May to June.

Apricot

Apricot is a deciduous tree of Rosaceae, which is cultivated all over China. The tree is 5-8 meters high, the bark is gray-brown, the leaf is broadly ovate or ovoid, the length is 5-9 cm, the width is 4-8 cm, the flower is solitary, the diameter is 2-3 cm, it opens before the leaf, the fruit is globose, Obovate, the diameter is more than 2.5 cm, the core is ovate or oval, both sides are flat, the top is round and obtuse, the florescence is from March to April, and the fruit is from June to July.

Peach

Peach is a small deciduous tree of the genus Rosaceae, native to China, with a height of 3-8 meters, a broad and spreading crown, dark reddish brown bark, rough scales when old, leaves oblong-lanceolate, elliptic-lanceolate or Obovate-lanceolate, flowers solitary, opening before leaves, 2.5-3.5 cm in diameter, fruit shape and size are variable, ovate, broadly oval or oblate, large nucleus, enucleate or mucinous core. Oval or nearly round, flowering from March to April and fruiting from August to September.

Plum

Plum alias Jiaqingzi, Bulin, plum, Yuhuang plum, mountain plum, etc., Rosaceae plum is a deciduous tree, widely cultivated all over the world, is one of people's favorite fruits, tree height 9-12 meters, leaves oblong Obovate, long oval, flowers usually 3 side by side, drupe globose, ovoid or subconical, nuclear ovoid or oblong, wrinkled, flowering in April, fruiting in July-August.