The appearance of plum blossom is mainly expounded from three aspects: leaves, flowers and branches. The first is the leaves: the leaves of plum blossoms are egg-shaped with some small serrations on the edges; Secondly, its flowers: its colors are usually mainly red and yellow, which looks like a butterfly from a distance and is very beautiful; Finally, its branches: generally purple-brown or light gray, the branches are relatively slender.

Plum blossoms are solitary or sometimes have two peanuts in 1 bud, with a diameter of 22.5 cm, full of fragrance and opening before leaves; Pedicel is short, about 65438 03 mm long, often glabrous; Calyx is usually reddish brown, but some varieties of calyx are green or green purple; Calyx tube broadly campanulate, glabrous or sometimes pubescent; Sepals ovate or suborbicular, apex obtuse; Petals obovate, white to pink; Stamens short or slightly longer than petals; Ovary densely pilose, style short or slightly longer than stamens.

The fruit of Bai Mei variety is yellow-white, thick, bitter, with large stone and little meat, which is used to make dried plums. For example, big white head, Taigong species and so on. The mature period is in the middle of April.

The fruits of plum varieties are cyan or bluish yellow, sour or slightly bitter, with medium quality, and most of them are used to make candied fruit. For example, April plum, May plum, Baishui plum and so on. The maturity is in the middle and late April.

Plum varieties have red or purplish red fruit, crisp, slightly sour and good quality, which can be used as Pei-Mui Chan and chopped plum. Such as soft plum, purple plum, big leaf pork liver, rouge plum and so on. The maturity period is early, middle and June in May.

Chinese plum

What you see is definitely not plum blossom. Yellow flowers with small petals may be wintersweet. Although it has "Mei" in its name, it is completely different from plum blossom. This is a photo of wintersweet.