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Prunus cerasifera – cherry plum; Prunus cocomilia – Italian plum, cuckoo's apple; Prunus consociiflora [4] [5] – Hubei plum; Prunus darvasica – Darwaz plum; Prunus divaricata [2] – wild cherry plum; Prunus domestica – European plum; Prunus ramburii – sloe of Sierra Nevada (Spanish: endrino de Sierra Nevada) Prunus salicina ...
Prunus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs from the family Rosaceae, which includes plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots and almonds (collectively stonefruit).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 ...
All are described as flowering or ornamental cherries, though they have mixed parentage, and some have several or unknown parents. They are valued for their spring blossom, and in some cases ornamental fruit and bark. [2] This list does not include the edible, or culinary, fruit trees in the genus Prunus (cherries, peaches, almonds, plums etc ...
Prunus glandulosa, called Chinese bush cherry, Chinese plum, and dwarf flowering almond, is a species of shrub tree native to China and long present in Japan.It is commonly used as an ornamental tree and for cut flowers.
Prunus triloba, sometimes called flowering plum [2] or flowering almond, a name shared with Prunus jacquemontii, [3] is a shrubby cherry, sometimes becoming a small tree. The flowers are pale pink or white, [3] and the fruit are red and "pubescent", i.e. with soft hair. It originates from China but is popular around the world as an ornamental.
In the present day, ornamental cherry blossom trees are distributed and cultivated worldwide. [1] While flowering cherry trees were historically present in Europe, North America, and China, [2] the practice of cultivating ornamental cherry trees was centered in Japan, [3] and many of the cultivars planted worldwide, such as that of Prunus × yedoensis, [4] [5] have been developed from Japanese ...
The cherry plum is a popular ornamental tree for garden and landscaping use, grown for its very early flowering. Numerous cultivars have been developed, many of them selected for purple foliage, such as P. cerasifera var pissardii (Carrière) L.H. Bailey (P. 'Atropurpurea').
Prunus avium, commonly called wild cherry, [3] sweet cherry [3] or gean [3] is a species of cherry, a flowering plant in the rose family, Rosaceae.It is native to Europe, Anatolia, Maghreb, and Western Asia, from the British Isles [4] south to Morocco and Tunisia, north to the Trondheimsfjord region in Norway and east to the Caucasus and northern Iran, with a small isolated population in the ...