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Oats plum (Prunus domestica subsp. Insititia )

The creep - plum (Prunus domestica subsp. Insititia ), also called oat plum, is a subspecies of the plum (Prunus domestica). It is cultivated in Europe, West Asia, India, North Africa and North America.

Features

The creep - plum is a shallow -rooted tree or shrub. The branches have up to the second year on a velvety pubescence and are usually spiny. The leaves are dull serrated and often hairy. They are fully developed at flowering time usually. Sepals and petals are more or less rounded. In the sepals a hair is just at the edge exists. The petals are pure white. The fruit is 1.5 to 3 inches long, spherical to teardrop-shaped blue and black. Its juice is blood red. The stone core is round - ovate, symmetrical, doppelspitzig and hardly keeled. Its thickness corresponds to 59 to 76 % of its length. Its surface is smooth, he adheres to the flesh. The deep back furrow ridge lines or not.

System

The creep - plum was first described in 1755 by Carolus Linnaeus as Prunus insititia. Gaston Eugène Marie Bonnier and George de Layens they classified in 1894 as Prunus domestica subsp. insititia as a subspecies of the plum.

The epithet is Latin for insititia grafted, outlandish ' and demarcates the taxon of the domestic blackthorn. Latin means the plant CINUS or cinum is called.

For the Eastern Alps a variety Prunus domestica subsp. insititia var alpina orientalis Werneck described, which should be closely related to the sloe.

Use

The creep - plum is used primarily for the production of seed oil ( feed and fuel oil ) and rubber tree, to a lesser extent also for the production of brandy. In addition, it is used as a support for noble plum varieties ( Saint- Julien- plum) and as a hedge plant use.

Since the blue Kriacherl used in Styria as a basis for the production of plum brandy for generations it was recorded in Austria in the Traditional Food register .. Even in Lower Austria's Waldviertel region, the yellow-green Kriecherl has the chance to importance as a basis for a gourmet region Austria to gain.

Trivial names

More German name for the creep - plum are Actual Crawl, Kritzschken, Krellen, cricket, Kreke (Low German ), Weinkrieche ( rle ) or Weinkrüglein, pork or Saukrieche, Kriacherl, Cyprus or Ziper (le), Ziparte, Ziegfarze, Bocks- or Geißhoden, Maroncken or Malo (s) press, Tornigel, Tarrnickel, Ross, shit, wine, Haber, oats or Au ( g) stpflaume, Pflaumenschlehe Aug (u ) stkirsche, Fluder, Flüder, Pfluder, priest, slipping, Schlupfer, Weinling and (especially for the dried fruit ) Prunellen, Brunellen, Ellen Brin, Brigniolen, Prünellen or nectarines.