Plum

Plums were a type of fruit, grown from trees of the same name, that could be found in the three major lands of Toril.

Description
These trees grew flower blossoms, which were referred to in Wa-an as "ume".

Availability
Places in the Realms where plums were known to grow or be cultivated included:
 * In the Eastern Heartlands, some farmers in Cormyr and the Dalelands cultivated plums.
 * In west Faerûn's Lands of Intrigue region, one could find plums being cultivated in the Purple Hills of Tethyr.

Beyond Faerûn

 * In the island nation of Kozakura's Maeshi province.
 * In the island nation of Wa, where the Wa-an language reffered to a field of them as "umeno". In a city there known as Rukimbaru, the gardens of tea houses typically featured plum trees.
 * The land of Zakhara.

Beyond the Prime Material

 * In the Domains of Dread, plums were cultivated by farmers in Barovia.
 * In the Celestial Bureaucracy's plane of Qui, they could be found around the domain of the pan lung known as Sawaka.

History
Around 1297 DR, the eight brothers of the Cender family planted of plum trees on the eastern edge of the city of Suzail. After infighting caused the downfall of the brothers, their plum trees were left to deteriorate and become home to thousands of bats, including the species known as sinisters.

In the mid–14 century DR, Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue sold both pickled and spiced plums, as well as fruit cheeses (a type of preserve) and jams that were made from the fruit.

Fruits

 * Candied plums.
 * The people of Kara-Tur often pickled their plums.
 * Some used plums in the production of beverages, such as plum wine and Purple Hills Cider.

Flowers

 * The flowers of these trees could be used as a material component by shugenja for the detect curse spell.

Individuals

 * The pan lung Sawaka was quite fond of plums.

Races & Sentient Creatures

 * Plums trees in Zakhara were among the fruit bearing trees that ashira (tree spirits unique to that peninsula) lived in and whose produce they survived off of.

Trivia
The noh play Lady Sei featured an anthropomorphized plum tree by the name of Tsugu.

Background
In the game Icewind Dale, when you use the contact other plane spell and ask the spirits to tell you about the missing caravan, they will respond that it is gone and that, "Man-beasts plucked the wealth like a plum from a tree..."

Appearances

 * Adventures
 * Test of the Samurai • Night of the Seven Swords • Blood of the Yakuza
 * Video Games
 * Icewind Dale
 * Icewind Dale