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Prunus Subg. Padus
''Prunus'' subg. ''Padus'' is a subgenus of ''Prunus'', characterised by having racemose inflorescences. ''Padus'' was originally a distinct genus, but genetic and morphological studies have shown that ''Padus'' is polyphyletic. It has been proposed that all the racemose taxa within ''Prunus'' (''Padus'', ''Maddenia'', ''Laurocerasus'' and ''Pygeum'') are incorporated into a broad-sense ''Prunus'' subg. ''Padus''. ''Padus'' is the Latin name for the Po River. The term ''Padus'' (παδος) in reference to the plant comes from the Greek father of botany, Theophrastus, meaning "from the River Po." Species ''Padus'' Species formerly included in the genus ''Padus'' are mostly incorporated into this subgenus, except '' P. maackii'' and '' P. xingshanensis'' which are included in ''Prunus'' subg. ''Cerasus''. They are deciduous and have small, sour fruit usually only palatable to birds, hence the name bird cherries. Bird cherries are native throughout the temperate Northern Hem ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus Virginiana
''Prunus virginiana'', commonly called bitter-berry, chokecherry, Virginia bird cherry, and western chokecherry (also black chokecherry for ''P. virginiana'' var. ''demissa''), is a species of bird cherry (Prunus subg. Padus, ''Prunus'' subgenus ''Padus'') native to North America. Description Chokecherry is a Basal shoot, suckering shrub or small tree growing to tall, rarely to and exceptionally wide, with a trunk as thick as . The leaves are Leaf shape, oval, long and wide, with a serrated leaf margin, margin. The stems rarely exceed in length. The flowers are produced in racemes long in late spring (well after leaf emergence), eventually growing up to 15 cm. They are across. The fruits (drupes) are about in diameter, range in color from bright red to black, and possess a very astringent taste, being both somewhat sour and somewhat bitter. They get darker and marginally sweeter as they ripen. They each contain a large stone. Chemistry Chokecherries ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus Brachypoda
''Prunus'' is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs from the family Rosaceae. The genus includes plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots and almonds (collectively stonefruit). The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, being native to the temperate regions of North America, the neotropics of South America, and temperate and tropical regions of Eurasia and Africa, There are about 340 accepted species . Many members of the genus are widely cultivated for their sweet, fleshy fruit and for decorative purposes of their flowers. ''Prunus'' fruit are drupes, or stone fruits. The fleshy mesocarp surrounding the endocarp is edible while the endocarp itself forms a hard, inedible shell called the pyrena ("stone" or "pit"). This shell encloses the seed (or "kernel"), which is edible in some species (such as sweet almonds), but poisonous in many others (such as apricot kernels). Besides being eaten off the hand, most ''Prunus'' fruit are also commonly used in processing, such as jam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus Stellipila
''Prunus stellipila'' () is a species of ''Prunus'' native to central China, preferring to grow at 1000–1800m. It is a tree typically 6–9m tall, but reaching 20m. Uses People in rural Shaanxi province Shaanxi is a province in north Northwestern China. It borders the province-level divisions of Inner Mongolia to the north; Shanxi and Henan to the east; Hubei, Chongqing, and Sichuan to the south; and Gansu and Ningxia to the west. Shaanxi ... use its wood to make items of furniture, and particularly favor it for making chopping boards. They refer to it as 苦桃, "bitter peach". References stellipila Bird cherries Endemic flora of China Plants described in 1911 {{prunus-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus Ssiori
''Prunus ssiori'', the Hokkaido bird cherry or Japanese bird cherry, is a species of bird cherry native to northern Japan, Sakhalin Sakhalin ( rus, Сахали́н, p=səxɐˈlʲin) is an island in Northeast Asia. Its north coast lies off the southeastern coast of Khabarovsk Krai in Russia, while its southern tip lies north of the Japanese island of Hokkaido. An islan ... Island, and the Kuril Islands. Some natural populations may occur on the far eastern mainland of Asia in Russia. Its specific epithet derives from its Ainu language, Ainu name, meaning "bitter". Uses Some cultivation of this species for its fruit is conducted by people in Japan and on Sakhalin. The Ainu people, Ainu and others use its wood for various crafts, such as hunting weapons, musical instruments, and furniture. References External links * {{Taxonbar, from1=Q3408657, from2=Q15544153 Bird cherries Prunus, ssiori Flora of China Flora of Japan Flora of Russia Plants described in 1868 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus Serotina
''Prunus serotina'', commonly called black cherry,World Economic Plants: A Standard Reference, Second Edition'. CRC Press; 19 April 2016. . p. 833–. wild black cherry, rum cherry, or mountain black cherry, is a deciduous tree or shrub in the rose family Rosaceae. Despite its common names, it is not very closely related to commonly cultivated cherries. It is found in the Americas. Description ''Prunus serotina'' is a medium-sized, fast-growing forest tree growing to a height of . The leaves are long, ovate-lanceolate in shape, with finely toothed margins. Fall leaf color is yellow to red. Flowers are small, white and 5-petalled, in racemes long which contain several dozen flowers. The flowers give rise to reddish-black "berries" (drupes) fed on by birds, in diameter. For about its first decade the bark of a black cherry tree is thin, smooth, and banded, resembling a birch. A mature tree has very broken, dark gray to black bark. The leaves are long and shiny, resembling a so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus Perulata
''Prunus perulata'' () is a species of bird cherry native to Sichuan and Yunnan in China, preferring to grow at 2400–3200m. It is a tree typically 6–12m tall. Its flowers are borne on a raceme, quite small, with dull white to creamy-yellow petals. Its closest relative is ''Prunus buergeriana'', from which it is morphologically and genetically distinct. Ecology Its fruit are consumed by the endangered Yunnan snub-nosed monkey, '' Rhinopithecus bieti''. It is a forest gap specialist, taking advantage of treefalls to establish Establishment may refer to: * The Establishment, a dominant group or elite that controls a polity or an organization * The Establishment (club), a 1960s club in London, England * The Establishment (Pakistan), political terminology for the military ... at the shadier edges of gaps. References perulata Bird cherries Endemic flora of China Flora of South-Central China Plants described in 1911 {{prunus-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus Padus
''Prunus padus'', known as bird cherry, hackberry (unrelated to the genus ''Celtis''), hagberry, or Mayday tree, is a flowering plant in the Rosaceae, rose family. It is a species of cherry, a deciduous small tree or large shrub up to tall. It is the type species of the subgenus ''Prunus subg. Padus, Padus'', which have flowers in racemes. It is native to northern Europe and North Asia, northern and northeast Asia and is grown as an Ornamental tree, ornamental in North America. Distribution ''Prunus padus'' is native to Morocco and temperate Eurasia from the British Isles to Japan. Its distribution includes all Western and Central Europe north of the Pyrenees and the Alps and south of the Tree line, treeline with small pockets also found in Iberian Peninsula, Iberia and Northern Italy and even parts of North Africa. It also inhabits all of Eastern Europe north of the Balkan Mountains and the Steppe, as well as in the Caucasus. In Asia it is found throughout the forests of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus Obtusata
''Prunus obtusata'' (, ) is a species of bird cherry native to Tibet, southern China and Taiwan, preferring to grow at 800–3600m. It is a tree typically 6–20m tall. Its flowers are borne on a raceme, with white petals. The fruit is black. Ecology Its young leaves are consumed by the endangered Guizhou snub-nosed monkey, '' Rhinopithecus brelichi''. References obtusata Bird cherries Flora of Tibet Flora of South-Central China Flora of Southeast China Flora of Taiwan Plants described in 1911 {{prunus-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus Napaulensis
''Prunus napaulensis'' is a species of bird cherry native to the eastern 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 Earth's highest peaks, including the highest, Mount Everest. More than list of h ..., including Nepal, Myanmar and China. A tree, it can reach 27m and prefers to grow between 1800 and 3000m above sea level. The fruit is edible, and it is cultivated for its fruit in Assam and Ukhrul District, Manipur (and presumably elsewhere). Its wood is used locally for making furniture. It goes by many common names across its range, including and (Nepalese), (Bengali), ( Khasi), (Assamese), theikanthei in Tangkhul, and 粗梗稠李 "crude stalk thick plum" (Chinese). '' Prunus bracteopadus'' is a very similar species, possibly conspecific. Notes References External links * Bird cherries napaulensis Flora of Assam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus Gyirongensis
''Prunus'' is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs from the family Rosaceae. The genus includes plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots and almonds (collectively stonefruit). The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, being native to the temperate regions of North America, the neotropics of South America, and temperate and tropical regions of Eurasia and Africa, There are about 340 accepted species . Many members of the genus are widely cultivated for their sweet, fleshy fruit and for decorative purposes of their flowers. ''Prunus'' fruit are drupes, or stone fruits. The fleshy mesocarp surrounding the endocarp is edible while the endocarp itself forms a hard, inedible shell called the pyrena ("stone" or "pit"). This shell encloses the seed (or "kernel"), which is edible in some species (such as sweet almonds), but poisonous in many others (such as apricot kernels). Besides being eaten off the hand, most ''Prunus'' fruit are also commonly used in processing, such as jam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus Grayana
''Prunus grayana'' ( syn. ''Padus grayana'' ( Maxim.) C.K.Schneid., ''Prunus padus'' var. ''japonica'' Miq.; Japanese bird cherry or Gray's bird cherry; Japanese ; Chinese ) is a species of bird cherry native to Japan and China, occurring at medium altitudes of 1,000–3,800 m in the temperate zone. It prefers sunshine and moist (but drained) soil.Flora of China''Padus grayana''/ref>Japanese Tree EncyclopediaUwamizuzakura ''Prunus grayana'' It is a small deciduous tree reaching a height of 8–20 m. The trunk is slender with smooth grey to purple-grey bark marked with horizontal brown lenticels, with a strong smell when cut. The leaves are elliptical to ovoid, 4–10 cm long and 1.8–4.5 cm broad, with a serrated margin with aristate tips to the serrations. The lowest teeth of a leaf feature two glands. The flowers are produced on 5–8 cm long racemes, each flower 7–10 mm diameter, with five white petals; they are hermaphroditic, and appear in mid-spr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
