''Prunus humilis'' ( zh, 欧李) is a species of

bush cherry ''Prunus'' sect. ''Microcerasus'' is a section of ''Prunus''. It used to be included in ''Prunus'' subg. ''Cerasus'', but phylogenetic research indicates it belongs to ''Prunus'' subg. ''Prunus''. It differs from ''Prunus'' subg. ''Cerasus'' by ...

native to northern China. It is cultivated for its edible fruit.

Chloroplast DNA Chloroplast DNA (cpDNA) is the DNA located in chloroplasts, which are photosynthetic organelles located within the cells of some eukaryotic organisms. Chloroplasts, like other types of plastid, contain a genome separate from that in the cell nu ...

sequencing has shown that its closest relative is ''

Prunus dictyoneura ''Prunus dictyoneura'' () is a species of bush cherry found in Gansu, Hebei, Henan, Jiangsu, Ningxia, Shaanxi and Shanxi provinces of China. A shrub 0.3 to 1.0 (occasionally 2.0)m tall, it prefers to grow in thickets in grasslands on hillsides ...

'', at least as far as chloroplasts are concerned.

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* {{Taxonbar, from=Q3408641 humilis humilis Flora of China Taxa named by Alexander von Bunge