Plum has white, pink, purple red, crimson and other different colors; wax plum is mainly waxy yellow, other colors are relatively rare.
Waxberry usually opens around the lunar month, about 2 months earlier than plum blossom.
Plum is a tree with trunk, which can grow up to several meters. Branches usually have thorns. In addition to straight branches, there are vertical branches and twisted branches. The crown of the tree is irregular and round. Wintersweet is a shrub with cluster and upright branches. The rhizome is very developed and massive, with cluster height of 2-4 meters and main stem of 4-10 meters.
The leaves of plum blossom are widely ovate to ovate, with a length of about 4-10 cm. The leaves of Chimonanthus praecox are opposite, nearly leathery, with a long oval shape, rough upper surface, green, smooth back and gray.
Plum blossom has a kind of dark fragrance, fresh and elegant fragrance; while waxberry also reveals this fragrance, but the fragrance is relatively strong, stronger than the plum blossom.
