Conserving Plant Biodiversity for Future Generations. Darvaz Plum

This brochure is made as a part of the Conservation and sustainable management of critically endangered plant biodiversity project.

Description:
Prunus darvasica, or the Darvaz plum, is a rare plant with white to pink flowers and fleshy drupes.
It's native to Central Asia and primarily grows in temperate regions. The tree is a shrub or small
deciduous tree 1.5 - 2.5 meters in height. Leaves lanceolate to ovate, simple, marginally serrated to
dark green, bottom pale. Flowers pale pink to white, 5 petals, scented: bloom early spring before foliage. Fruits thin-skinned yellow to fullred and blakish at maturity, round to oval, small to medium-sized drupes. Extremely juicy flesh, sweetly slightly acid, with a single smooth stone. The bark is smooth grey when young but becomes rough and darker with age.