Besides providing their tasty, versatile fruit, native plum trees are a keystone species, which means they provide critical resources for wildlife including food, shelter and breeding sites.

Ahead of cherry blossom season, the ume or plum blossoms brighten up the colder months in Japan. This guide introduces the different varieties. This type of ume is close to the original species ...

Pear, plum, fig and medlar trees can also produce good results. Different varieties produce their fruit at different times of year. The fruit of early ripening trees tends not to keep well whereas ...