Fatamorgana,thanks for that link,i finally found the kind of plum tree i have,mine is the "Yellow Shiro Plum"a japanese plum.I've had mine close to 30 years or so.A friend i used to work with had one in her yard and she gave a couple of us,starts from her tree.I'm the only one who still has it,and that thing is sooooooooooo loaded,that the limbs are bending. The rest of my friends killed theirs with kindness,but i share my plums with them.LOL,LOL They are the best plums i ever ate,and they should be ready to eat in a couple more weeks.Sometimes i just grab a few off the tree,wipe it off on my shirt tails and eat. The other thing i like about these is that no critters or birds bother them,like they do my peaches.The birds come along the peach tree and take a bite of a peach then move onto another,makes me so angry.Told dh we need to get one of those nets fr the tree,before they eat them all. Kathi

did you take it from a shady nursery ... and slam it into full blinding sun which is also reflected by a blinding white wall ... when you buy a new plant.. you need to HARDEN IT OFF to new sunlight .... so i suspect transport shock ... and i agree.. the pot itself.. at a min.. needs to be shaded ... never forget.. you can have a pot in full shade.. and the plant in sun ... the black pot itself.. can heat ridiculously in sun ... and it will.. for lack of a better term.. bake off the water.. before the plant can use it ... i would move it to full but bright shade for a while.. and maintain perfect water ... i jsut came fromt eh garden clinic forumn.. so my answer is in that flavor ... lol .. but .... we still dont have an Id.. but if it end up a houseplant.. there is a good forum for such ... ken ps: looks like fresh media.. did you transplant it .. and then throw it out in full sun.. add transplant shock ... always give a repotted plant.. a week or two.. to get the roots pumping.. before you take it back into full sun ....

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Yes, it is staked but that could be because someone didn't know what it was and thought it was an intentional planting. Particularly since the stake doesn't look like a proper garden stake but some sort of broom handle. Or maybe decided to leave a volunteer and grow it up as a standard. The flowers look like female ones and an intentional planting would probably be of a male tree for the silvery catkins. I don't know of any S caprea which are suitable for a small garden here except the weeping Kilmarnock willow and this isn't that. I suppose this could be the graft stock of a Kilmarnock which has grown out although Kilmarnock is a male tree. S caprea just isn't a widely planted garden tree in the UK. But they are very common as inblown seedlings. Perhaps our friend in Stroud will come back with some more clues.