Prunus cerasifera ‘Thundercloud’

I was looking at the new classified ads and saw the one posted by nurser4you. Was checking out the cherries prices when I saw Thundercloud plum tree. Never heard of it before so I googled and found this pic.


http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ldplants/prcet5.htm

Now purple is my favorite color. I saw all the purple on this tree and now I thinking I need it. I know nothing about it.

Has anybody seen a real one. Does it look as purpley and pretty in peron as in the pic? Another site said the fruit was edible for human comsumption, but doe s it taste anygood or is it one of them ones you can only make jam from?

Don't you mean perfect postulation?

Or where you referring to the plum's persimmon-y public persona?

Possibly the publics perception of this plumb produces its popularity. Plenty plantings of this plumb are placed in the productive places , of Puyallup, Polsbo, and Port Orchard WA. Yes they are quite purple. I have enjoyed this tree for years.

ROFL. Well, at least my monitor wearing the coffee this morning and not me, although I did have to wipe the dribble from off my chin.

I had a beautiful old Dogwood in the back at one time. When we had a some tonadoe winds come ripping through here sevralpine s went down and with it my Dogood. I miss that Dogwood and am gonna get me another one this year and was thinking this 'Thundercloud' might look pretty with it.

I have a bunch of Prunus glandulosa 'Rosa Plea' and Deutzia gracilis that might go good around for an understory shrub.

Soferdig.... Gues s we was typing at the same time. Do you happen to know if they a fussy tree. Do you have to do anything special for them? And do I have to have several to have them make plums?

Well, I guess its up to me to play the devils advocate. I don't much care for them. I grew 'Newport' in a raised area at the NE corner of our house that has long since been replaced by Malus 'Louisa'. My understanding before purchasing was that due to early flowering (before bees would get busy) fruiting would be sparse. Quite the opposite occurred and this tree fruited to the point of self destruction. On a positive note, the fruit is edible and I found them to be quite tasty. I had (still have) Juniperus horizontalis and Microbiota growing under the tree, which made it difficult to harvest/pick up fallen fruit. I know that seems (what's the word?) to some of you, but it was a pain in the Gluteus maximus. But the main reason I pulled it is I just got so tired of the in-your-face purple. There's no subtlety at all to this tree and I didn't think it worthy of the real estate it occupied. Its been gone several years now and I can't say that I miss it. Now, back to our regularly scheduled programming.

Your two main problems will be borers and black knot fungus.

There was an old red leaf plum here that swear must have been a red leaved P.angustifolia, because it had the narrow leaves and suckered like crazy. The color was more of a wine red than purple-red like P.cerasifera. I have never found another like it.