Black plum is a common name for several plants and may refer to:
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Diospyros australis
''Diospyros australis '' is the most southerly of the group of some 450 ebonies and persimmons. It is a shrub or small tree growing in rainforests of seaward eastern Australia. The habitat is in a variety of different rainforest forms, though ...
'', native to eastern Australia
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Pouteria australis
''Pouteria australis'', also known by the synonym ''Planchonella australis'', is a medium to tall rainforest tree of the family Sapotaceae native to Queensland and New South Wales, Australia. It is known by the common name black apple, wild p ...
'', native to eastern Australia
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Prunus domestica
''Prunus domestica'', the European plum is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. A deciduous tree, it includes many varieties of the fruit trees known as plums in English, though not all plums belong to this species. The greengag ...
'', the common cultivated plum
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Prunus nigra
''Prunus nigra'', the Canada plum, Canadian plum, or black plum, is a species of ''Prunus'' native to eastern North America.
Description
''Prunus nigra'' is a deciduous shrub or small tree growing to tall with a trunk up to in diameter, with ...
'', native to eastern North America
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Syzygium cumini
''Syzygium cumini'', commonly known as Malabar plum, Java plum, black plum, jamun, jaman, jambul, or jambolan, is an evergreen tropical tree in the flowering plant family Myrtaceae, and favored for its fruit, timber, and ornamental value. It is ...
'', native to south and southeast Asia
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Vitex doniana
''Vitex doniana'' is a tree native to the Afrotropics. Its fruits are one of several fruits called black plums. This tree is often grown for its fruits.
Description
It grows to , and rarely up to . Its fruits are at most in length. ''V. donia ...
'', native to Africa
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