It is also called cherry plum, but its scientific name is Prunus cerasifera. Its fruits look like yellow, pink or purple plums… As for the tree, it can be placed anywhere, even in a small garden since it does not exceed 5 to 6 m in height. In isolation, in a free and natural hedge, in an orchard, find a location for it without delay, because this is the right time to plant it, in the sun, in all light, drained soils, even shallow ones.
After installation, it no longer requires any care other than watering for the following months. Its cultivation is so simple that it is more and more often planted in rows, along roadsides, and in July, you can see amateurs with baskets, harvesting its small plums. Its iron health allows it to be a very good rootstock for other varieties of plum trees, ensuring them vigor, rapid fruit set and good productivity.
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Although the fruits of the myrobalan are wild, we detect no acidity, acridity, astringency or bitterness, as in the sloes, the fruits of the blackthorn, the famous “black thorn”, “white thorn” being the hawthorn like they are called in the countryside. Myrobalan plums are soft, sweet, refreshing, therefore exquisite to taste as they are, and when they are picked “fresh”, they keep for a week in the cellar.
Myrobalan plums are soft, sweet and refreshing. / Adobestock / thodonal – stock.adobe.com
And concoct jams and compotes, daring to combine these plums with spices: star anise, cinnamon, cloves, nutmeg, pepper… With fresh ginger, cut into thin strips, the flavors blend beautifully, whether in sweet or savory preparations, in pickles for example. And to offer sweets to your guests at the end of a festive meal, macerate these plums in fruit water with sugar for six months, as you do for watered cherries. of life.