Prunus × blireiana (or blireana), the purple-leafed plum or double-flowering plum, is an ornamental flowering plant hybrid in the genus Prunus. It is a cross between the Chinese flowering plum (Prunus mume) and the purple-leaved plum cultivar Prunus cerasifera 'Pissardii'.
Growing to tall and broad, it is a hardy deciduous medium-sized shrub or small tree, with rich pink, slightly scented, double blooms in Spring. The blossom is followed by reddish-purple tinged leaves which turn green as the season progresses.
Etymology The plant was named for the town of Bléré, near Tours, France, and raised by the Lemoine nursery c. 1905. Lemoine, E. (1906) Lemoine, Cat. No. 164: 14 Homotypic synonyms Prunus cerasifera var. blireana (André) Bean in Trees & Shrubs Brit. Isles 2: 232 (1914) Prunus pissardii blireana (André) Lemoine in Nursery Cat. (Lemoine) 164: 14 (1906) Heterotypic synonyms Prunus × blireana f. flore-pleno André in Rev. Hort. (Paris) 77: 392 (1905), not validly publ. Prunus × blireiana f. moseri (Rehder) Koehne in Mitt. Deutsch. Dendrol. Ges. 26: 71 (1917 publ. 1918) Prunus cerasifera var. moseri Rehder in Möller's Deutsche Gärtn.-Zeitung 20: 405 (1905)
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