''Prunus cornuta'', the Himalayan bird cherry, is a species of

bird cherry Bird cherry is a common name for the European plant '' Prunus padus''. Bird cherry may also refer to: * ''Prunus'' subg. ''Padus'', a group of species closely related to ''Prunus padus'' * ''Prunus avium'', the cultivated cherry, with the Latin e ...

native to the foothills of the

Himalayas The Himalayas, or Himalaya (; ; ), is a mountain range in Asia, separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau. The range has some of the planet's highest peaks, including the very highest, Mount Everest. Over 100 ...

, including China and the countries of the Indian subcontinent. A medium-sized tree, it can reach 18m. It is used for a rootstock for sweet cherries in India. Its specific epithet references the "horned" deformation of the fruit seen when a tree is afflicted with the fungal disease pocket plum gall, ascribed to the species '' Taphrina padi''.

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cornuta Cornuta is an extinct order of echinoderms. Along with the mitrates, they form one half of the Stylophora The stylophorans are an extinct, possibly polyphyletic group allied to the Paleozoic Era echinoderms, comprising the prehistoric co ...

Flora of Asia Flora of China Flora of the Indian subcontinent Plants described in 1841 {{prunus-stub