Plant Details

Accepted name:: Prunus mume (Siebold) Siebold & Zucc. [Rosaceae]
Source:: World Checklist ( Medium Taxonomic Confidence )
More about this plant:: Plants of the World Online
Infraspecies:: 3

Prunus mume var. cernua Franch.

Prunus mume var. mume

Prunus mume var. pallescens Franch.

Non-scientific name:	Class of name:	Medicinal source:
dark plum	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
flos mume	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
fructus mume	Pharmaceutical	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
japanese apricot	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
mei	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
mei gen	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
mei hua	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
meihua	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015)
mume	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
mume flos	Pharmaceutical	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015)
mume fructus	Pharmaceutical	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
mume fruit	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
plum flower	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
smoked plum	Other	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
ume	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
wu mei	Other	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
wumei	Other	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
乌梅	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
梅叶	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
梅核仁	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
梅根	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
梅梗	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
梅花	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
烏梅	Other	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
白梅	Other	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)

Part(s) of plant used:	Drug form:	Medicinal source:
fruit	almost ripe and dried fruit	Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
fruit	smoked unripe fruit	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005)
Fruit		Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
fruit	smoked and baked prearation obtained from the dried and almost ripe fruit	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018)
root, flower bud, smoked fruit		Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000)
fruit		Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004)
flower	dried flower bud	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005)
fruit		Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002)
fruit		Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
fruit	unripe fruit	Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012)

Kew's taxonomic resources include 2 scientific synonym(s) for this plant:

Armeniaca mume Siebold Verh. Batav. Genootsch. Kunsten 12: 69 (1830).
Prunopsis mume (Siebold) André Rev. Hort. (Paris) 62: 209 (1890).

This plant is cited in medicinal sources using the following names:

Name as published:	Medicinal source:
Armeniaca mume Sieb.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022) Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Prunus mume	Med. Pl. of the World (Wyk & Wink, 2004) Substances in Meds., Australia (TGA, 2007) Trad. Med. in Dali Prefecture, SW China (Zhang et al., 2014)
Prunus mume (Sieb.) Sieb. et Zucc.	Illus. Chinese Materia Medica (Wu, 2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010) Pharmacopoeia of China (2015) Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Prunus mume (Sieb.) Sieb. et zucc.	Pharmacopoeia of China (2005) Pharmacopoeia of China (2010)
Prunus mume (Sieb.)Sieb. et Zucc.	TCM Plants for Syst. Bio. Evaluation (Eisenberg et al., 2011)
Prunus mume (Siebold) Siebold & Zucc.	Taiwan Herbal Pharmacop. 3rd Chinese ed. (MOHW, 2018) WHODrug Herbal Substances (WHO-UMC, 2019) World Checklist of Useful Pl. Spp. (Diazgranados et al., 2020)
Prunus mume (Sieh.) Sieb. et Zucc.	Polyglot Asian Med.: Chinese Subset (Stanley-Baker, 2022)
Prunus mume Sieb. & Zucc.	Zhonghua Bencao: Materia Medica of China (1998)
Prunus mume Siebold & Zucc.	Herbs of Commerce (McGuffin et al., 2000) U.S. FDA Substance Registration System (2016)
Prunus mume Siebold & Zuccarini	Korean Pharmacopoeia, 10th edn. (MFDS, 2012)
Prunus mume Siebold et Zuccarini	Korean Herbal Pharmacopoeia (2002) Korean Pharmacopoeia, 9th edn. (2007)
Prunus nume Siebold et Zuccarini	Pl. Med. Totius Mundi (Penso & Proserpio, 1997)

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