Re: [nafex] Prunus cerasifera "Atropurpurea", syn. Pissardi

If you are interested in this one----My purple plum -Hollywood-- came from a
scion and does fruit. I could mail a scion or probably there are others who
have Hollywood nearby where you are.

Idell Weydemeyer in EL Sobrante, CA

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From: nafex <nafex-bounces+iwgarden=earthlink.net@lists.ibiblio.org> On
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Sent: Wednesday, September 2, 2020 10:58 AM
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Subject: [nafex] Prunus cerasifera "Atropurpurea", syn. Pissardi

Folks,

Help!

I have been looking for P. cerasifera "Atropurpurea", also known as
Pissardi, for two years now. I want a truly purple plant that has normal
fruit production. Every purple leaf plum that I have found available
commercially either has limited or no fruit or does not have truly
purple/reddish leaves for the whole season.

In the Albuquerque area there are hundreds of purple leaf plums that bear
fruit but no one knows the variety. The ones I've seen are older trees. One
theory is that the "fruitless" varieties actually begin to bear fruit as
they get older, possibly due to the influence of a rootstock. So even though
these appear to be a fruiting variety, I don't want to try to propagate them
because they may indeed be a fruitless variety that won't produce anything
for ten years.

So... if you have a tree that you know for certain is atropurpurea/PIssardi
- if it was sold to you that way or you have some other way of verifying the
variety - and if you are able and willing to propagate it by cuttings or
layering, I would be glad to pay you. I just don't want to spend ten years
nursing along a tree that just "looks like" a fruiting purple leaf plum,
only to find that it's not.

If anyone has a different suggestion about this, I'd love to hear it.
Thanks so much!

--

Regards,

Jay

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