Prunus salicina
Lindl. · speciesAt a glance
Sources15 archives
Databases and archives Prunus salicina's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation15 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility2 951 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI24 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics27 specimens↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinesequences↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
GRIN TaxonomyUSDA-ARSdistribution & uses↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
CCDBChromosome Counts DB · Tel Aviv U.genome & karyotype↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
PloiDBPloidy Databasegenome & karyotype
WikidataWikimedia Foundationstructured facts↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Prunus salicina (syn. Prunus triflora or Prunus thibetica), commonly called the Japanese plum or Chinese plum, is a small deciduous tree native to China. It is now also grown in fruit orchards in Vietnam, Korea, Japan, Israel, the United States, and Australia. Prunus salicina should not be confused with Prunus mume, a related species also grown in China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam. Another tree, Prunus japonica, is also a separate species despite having a Latin name similar to Prunus salicinas common name. Plant breeder Luther Burbank devoted a lot of work to hybridizing this species with the Japanese plum (Prunus salicina) and developed a number of cultivars from the hybrid.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
Size & morphology21
Life cycle & reproduction8
Diet & foraging1
Habitat & environment11
Physiology & chemistry1
Compounds documented for Prunus salicina across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds31 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (-)-Catechol | present | NPASS | |
| (1R,2S,4S,6R,7S,8R,9S,12S,13R,15R,16R,18S,19R)-16-[(2R,3R,4R,5R,6R)-3,4-dihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)-5-[(2S,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxyoxan-2-yl]oxy-7,9,13-trimethyl-6-[(3R)-3-methyl-4-[(2S,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxybutyl]-5-oxapentacyclo[10.8.0.02,9.04,8.013,18]icosane-6,15,19-triol | present | NPASS | |
| (1R,2S,4S,6R,7S,8R,9S,12S,13R,15R,16R,18S,19R)-16-[(2R,3R,4R,5R,6R)-5-[(2S,3R,4R,5S,6R)-3,4-dihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)-5-[(2R,3S,4S,5R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-5-(hydroxymethyl)oxolan-2-yl]oxyoxan-2-yl]oxy-3,4-dihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxy-7,9,13-trimethyl-6-[(3R)-3-methyl-4-[(2R,3R,4S,5S,6R)-3,4,5-trihydroxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-2-yl]oxybutyl]-5-oxapentacyclo[10.8.0.02,9.04,8.013,18]icosane-6,15,19-triol | present | NPASS | |
| (2S)-2-[3-(4-hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)prop-2-enoylamino]-3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)propanoic acid | present | NPASS | |
| (2S,3R,4S,5S,6R)-2-[(2R,3R,4R,5R,6R)-6-[(1R,2S,4S,5'R,6R,7S,8R,9S,12S,13R,15R,16R,18S,19R)-15,19-dihydroxy-5',7,9,13-tetramethylspiro[5-oxapentacyclo[10.8.0.02,9.04,8.013,18]icosane-6,2'-oxane]-16-yl]oxy-4,5-dihydroxy-2-(hydroxymethyl)oxan-3-yl]oxy-6-(hydroxymethyl)oxane-3,4,5-triol | present | NPASS | |
| 3-(4-Hydroxy-3-methoxyphenyl)-1-(4-hydroxyphenyl)prop-2-en-1-one | present | NPASS | |
| 4-aminobutanoate | present | NPASS | |
| alpha-Catechin | present | NPASS | |
| Amygdalin | present | LOTUS | |
| Atroviolacegenin | present | NPASS |
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Prunus salicina has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
Besides the big genome in the nucleus, cells carry a small, circular loop of DNA inside the cell's energy factories — the mitochondria. It is inherited almost only from the mother and is a leftover from ancient bacteria that moved into the cell. The mitochondrial markers above (ND*, COX, CYTB…) are read from exactly this loop. Outer ring = one strand, inner ring = the other.
The complete instruction manual Prunus salicina carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
2n 165×CCDB · ipcn-api-dl · CCDB · book-ipcn73-74 · CCDB · book-atlas-flowering-plants
diploid inferred1×PloiDB · genus-scale
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type2 951 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions75 of 138 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| Yangling, CN | 587 |
| Beijing, CN | 548 |
| Chengdu, CN | 286 |
| Wuhan, CN | 130 |
| Kunming, CN | 114 |
| Nanjing, CN | 94 |
| Guangzhou, CN | 89 |
| Guilin, CN | 75 |
| Nagano City, JP | 53 |
| Cambridge, US | 38 |
| Institute for Agricultural Bacteriology and Fermentation Biologylocation not on record | 34 |
| Chengdu, CN | 33 |
| Hangzhou, CN | 23 |
| Guiyang, CN | 21 |
| WNNUlocation not on record | 19 |
| Seoul, KR | 19 |
| Nanjing, CN | 18 |
| Xining, CN | 17 |
| Wuhan, CN | 17 |
| Shinshu Universitylocation not on record | 16 |
| Tsukuba, JP | 16 |
| Northeastern Forestry Universitylocation not on record | 15 |
| FJIDClocation not on record | 12 |
| Herbarium of the Department of Botany, University of Tokyolocation not on record | 11 |
| Nanjing, CN | 10 |
| Armidale, AU | 10 |
| Anhui Normal Universitylocation not on record | 10 |
| Xian, CN | 10 |
| Central China Normal Universitylocation not on record | 9 |
| Saint Louis, US | 9 |
| Adelaide, AU | 9 |
| Institute of Applied Ecology, Academia Sinicalocation not on record | 9 |
| Lanzhou, CN | 9 |
| University of Stellenboschlocation not on record | 9 |
| DMZ botanic gardenlocation not on record | 7 |
| Universidad Católica de Santa Maríalocation not on record | 7 |
| National Institute of Biological Resourceslocation not on record | 7 |
| Urumqi, CN | 7 |
| Sanda, JP | 7 |
| Fukushima Universitylocation not on record | 7 |
| FFPRIlocation not on record | 7 |
| Shanghai, CN | 6 |
| Bando, JP | 6 |
| Odawara, JP | 6 |
| Tokushima, JP | 6 |
| Shanxi Institute of Biologylocation not on record | 6 |
| Beijing, CN | 6 |
| Guangxi Institute of Traditional Medical and Pharmaceutical Scienceslocation not on record | 6 |
| Zhengzhou, CN | 6 |
| Guangzhou, CN | 5 |
| Zhejiang Universitylocation not on record | 5 |
| Kyoto Universitylocation not on record | 5 |
| Akita Prefectural Museumlocation not on record | 5 |
| Otaru, JP | 5 |
| 云南省思茅市民族传统医药研究所location not on record | 5 |
| Shanghai, CN | 5 |
| Xiamen, CN | 5 |
| Chinese Academy of Forestrylocation not on record | 4 |
| KIRMlocation not on record | 4 |
| Omachi Alpine Museumlocation not on record | 4 |
| Jishou Universitylocation not on record | 4 |
| Taipei, TW | 4 |
| Strecker Museum, Baylor Universitylocation not on record | 4 |
| ENTClocation not on record | 4 |
| Tianjin Natural History Museumlocation not on record | 4 |
| Edinburgh, GB | 3 |
| CASlocation not on record | 3 |
| Bronx, US | 3 |
| Xian, CN | 3 |
| Iwate Prefectural Museumlocation not on record | 3 |
| Jiangxi College of Educationlocation not on record | 3 |
| Guizhou Forestry Schoollocation not on record | 3 |
| Berlin, DE | 3 |
| Taipei, TW | 3 |
| Hangzhou Normal Collegelocation not on record | 3 |
| Chongqing Museumlocation not on record | 3 |
| Museo universitario di Chietilocation not on record | 3 |
| Mount Annan, AU | 3 |
| Central China Agricultural Universitylocation not on record | 3 |
| Jiangxi Universitylocation not on record | 3 |
| Guiyang, CN | 3 |
| Sugadaira Research Station, Mountain Science Center, University of Tsukubalocation not on record | 2 |
| Fujian Institute of Subtropical Botanylocation not on record | 2 |
| Shanxi Universitylocation not on record | 2 |
| 黔东南州民族医药研究所标本室location not on record | 2 |
| Chiba, JP | 2 |
| Kew, GB | 2 |
| TAIElocation not on record | 2 |
| Jackson, US | 2 |
| Taipei, TW | 2 |
| Antiguo Cuscatlán, SV | 2 |
| Guiyang, CN | 2 |
| Karlsruhe, DE | 2 |
| Mexico City, MX | 2 |
| Nishihara, JP | 2 |
| Servico de Microbiologia e Imunologialocation not on record | 2 |
| Fort Worth, US | 2 |
| Herbarium of South China Botanical Gardenlocation not on record | 2 |
| Toyama, JP | 1 |
| “Manash Kozybayev North Kazakhstan University" NPLClocation not on record | 1 |
| Kushiro City Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Museum Of Natural And Environmental History, Shizuokalocation not on record | 1 |
| College Park, US | 1 |
| Jinghong, CN | 1 |
| Flagstaff, US | 1 |
| Xinxiang, CN | 1 |
| J. Rusek Collectionlocation not on record | 1 |
| nlocation not on record | 1 |
| Peking Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| HUFDlocation not on record | 1 |
| Uppsala, SE | 1 |
| Jiujiang Forestry Institutelocation not on record | 1 |
| Changsha, CN | 1 |
| Chongqing, CN | 1 |
| FJFClocation not on record | 1 |
| Inner Mongolia Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Shenzhen, CN | 1 |
| Jiangxi Agricultural Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Guangxi Agricultural Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Chongqing Natural History Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Kochi, JP | 1 |
| Guiyang, CN | 1 |
| LDlocation not on record | 1 |
| Hobart, AU | 1 |
| Uberlândia, BR | 1 |
| Moscow State Universitylocation not on record | 1 |
| Philadelphia, US | 1 |
| Osaka, JP | 1 |
| Sendai, JP | 1 |
| IANIGLAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Cambridge, US | 1 |
| GZFlocation not on record | 1 |
| KURAlocation not on record | 1 |
| Alicante, ES | 1 |
| Canberra, AU | 1 |
| Tuxtla Gutiérrez, MX | 1 |
| Museo naturalistico del Frignano Ferruccio Minghellilocation not on record | 1 |
| Awka, NG | 1 |
Cultivated / Captivenot free-living
A living individual in a botanical garden, zoo or nursery — cultivated or kept, not free-living.
Where the DNA of Prunus salicina was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.