Light pink flowers appear before the leaves in spring. New leaves are ruby-red, turn dark reddish purple and finally become greenish bronze in late summer. Produces edible fruit. Popular purple-leafed plum that grows 20 feet tall and wide. Fragrant, single, pink flowers appear before the leaves.
Leaves remain deep purple through the growing season.
Occasionally produces fruit. Not well-suited to the Coastal Plains. The dwarf flowering almond is a spreading, multi-stemmed shrub that grows 4 to 5 feet tall and 3 to 4 feet wide. Its chief value is in the showy flower, which is either white or pink, single or double, and appears in midspring on old wood. It is often straggly and weak-stemmed, and subject to several insect and disease problems, especially borers.