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Prunus pumila, commonly called sand cherry, is a North American species of cherry in the rose family.It is widespread in eastern and central Canada from New Brunswick west to Saskatchewan and the northern United States from Maine to Montana, south as far as Colorado, Kansas, Indiana, and Virginia, with a few isolated populations in Tennessee and Utah.
Prunus × cistena, the purple leaf sand cherry or dwarf red-leaf plum, is a hybrid species of Prunus, the result of a cross between Prunus cerasifera (cherry plum or myrobalan plum) and Prunus pumila (sand cherry). [1]
Prunus ilicifolia flowers. It is an evergreen shrub [4] or small tree approaching 15 metres (49 feet) in height, [12] with dense, hard leaves [4] (sclerophyllous foliage). The leaves are 1.6–12 centimetres (3 ⁄ 4 – 4 + 3 ⁄ 4 inches) long with a 4–25 millimetres (1 ⁄ 8 –1 in) petiole [12] and spiny margins, somewhat resembling those of the holly.
Prunus is a genus of trees and shrubs in the flowering plant family Rosaceae that includes plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots and almonds.The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, [4] being native to the temperate regions of North America, the neotropics of South America, and temperate and tropical regions of Eurasia and Africa, [5] There are about 340 accepted species as of March ...
Prunus × cistena – purple-leaf sand cherry (P. cerasifera × P. pumila) Prunus × ferganica – Fergana plum (P. divaricata × P. ulmifolia) Prunus × foveata – pitted-stone plum; Prunus × fruticans (P. spinosa × P. insititia) Prunus × macedonica – Macedonian plum (P. cerasifera × P. cocomilia) Prunus × rossica – Russian plum (P ...
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Prunus avium, sweet cherry P. cerasus, sour cherry Germersdorfer variety cherry tree in blossom. Prunus subg.Cerasus contains species that are typically called cherries. They are known as true cherries [1] and distinguished by having a single winter bud per axil, by having the flowers in small corymbs or umbels of several together (occasionally solitary, e.g. P. serrula; some species with ...
Prunus cerasifera is a species of plum known by the common names cherry plum and myrobalan plum. [3] It is native to Southeast Europe [ 4 ] [ 5 ] [ 6 ] and Western Asia , [ 3 ] [ 7 ] and is naturalised in the British Isles [ 4 ] and scattered locations in North America.