They are the sole ingredient in the traditional powidl jam of Austria and the Czech Republic, and the main ingredient in schmootsch, a similar but spiced jam from Silesia. Prune plums hold their form well at oven temperatures and are much used in baking, for example in tarts such as quetschentaart and zwetschgenkuchen. The fruit, which ripens in August and September in the Northern Hemisphere, is a popular seasonal table fruit. The red-brown wood is used in fine cabinetry. It is less round than other plums, its ends are more pointed and the groove is less pronounced. The blossom appears in April and May in the Northern Hemisphere, before or with foliation, and is white, greenish-white, or yellowish-green on two or three downy pedicels. The leaf is simple, 4–10 cm long, alternate, petiolate, crenulate, and elliptic.

It grows to 6–10 m in height older trees have spreading branches. The prune plum tree is often found in streuobstwiesen. daveigne (Jura), dav(d)gna ( Franche-Comté). These names, like damson, are thought ultimately to derive from postulated Vulgar Latin * davascena, altered from damascena, meaning 'of Damascus', reflexes of which appear mainly in Franco-Provençal, e.g. Variants of the word include: Quetsch(e) ( Lorraine, Alsace, Luxembourg, and regionally in Germany) Kwetsen ( Dutch), Zwetschke (regionally in Austria) and Zwetsche (regionally in Germany). The word Zwetschge ( / ˈ t s v ɛ tʃ ɡ ə/), plural Zwetschgen, is from the German. The fruit is known under various regional names, including 'blue plum', 'damask plum', 'sugar plum', and 'German prune' in English-speaking countries, and 'Zwetschge' in German-speaking ones. insititia) and is especially popular in Central Europe. The freestone fruit is similar to, but distinct from, the clingstone damson ( Prunus domestica subsp. It is a subspecies of the plum Prunus domestica.

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