When the cherry plum tree reaches its full height, it measures 15 to 20 feet. If it falls during a storm or splits in half, the large limbs could cause damage to your home's roof.

Some cherry and plum trees in the central Ohio area are turning black from a fungal disease. Here's what you need to know.

Aside from cherry trees having the horizontal rings known as lenticels, a cherry blossom’s petals are slightly serrated while the flowers blooming from a plum tree do not.

Cherry tree bark has little growths called lenticels that help them expel carbon dioxide. "They're little horizontal stripes in the bark, and plum trees don't have that," Shores said. Not into ...

There are several fruit trees you can grow and enjoy that do well even in smaller spaces, rewarding you with fruit each ...

First off, yes, it is too early for cherry blossoms. The flowers folks around town are seeing now are not in fact cherry tree blossoms. They are in fact Japanese plum trees.

Sure enough, a cherry-sized plum hidden deep in leaves of the same hue hung from a branch. My son found one on the ground, which we dissected for closer inspection and confirmation.

Cherry tree bark has little growths called lenticels that help them expel carbon dioxide. "They're little horizontal stripes in the bark, and plum trees don't have that," Shores said. Not into ...