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Prunus spinosa, called blackthorn or sloe, is an Old World species of flowering plant in the rose family, Rosaceae. It is locally naturalized in parts of the New World. The fruits are used to make sloe gin in Britain and patxaran in Basque Country .
Only two plum species, the hexaploid European plum (Prunus domestica) and the diploid Japanese plum (Prunus salicina and hybrids), are of worldwide commercial significance. The origin of P. domestica is uncertain but may have involved P. cerasifera and possibly P. spinosa as ancestors. Other species of plum variously originated in Europe, Asia ...
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 ...
The larvae feed on Betula, Cotoneaster franchetii, Crataegus, Cydonia oblonga, Malus domestica, Prunus armeniaca, Prunus avium, Prunus cerasus, Prunus domestica insititia, Prunus mahaleb, Prunus serrulata, Prunus spinosa, Pyracantha coccinea, Sorbus aria and Sorbus aucuparia. [3] Full-grown larvae can be found at the end of May.
Prunus sogdiana [2] – Sogdian plum; Prunus spinosa – sloe; Prunus tadzhikistanica – Tajik plum; Prunus ursina [2] – bear's plum; Prunus ussuriensis [2] – Manchurian plum; Prunus vachuschtii – alucha; Hybrid species (some of them are hybrids with species of other sections): Prunus × blireiana – double-flowering plum (P. cerasifera ...
Rosaceae (/ r oʊ ˈ z eɪ s iː. iː,-s i. aɪ,-s i. eɪ /), [5] [6] the rose family, is a family of flowering plants that includes 4,828 known species in 91 genera. [7] [8] [9]The name is derived from the type genus Rosa.
Sour Cherry (Prunus cerasus; Paprastoji vyšnia) Bird Cherry or Hackberry (Prunus padus; Paprastoji ieva) Blackthorn or Sloe (Prunus spinosa; Dygioji slyva) Common Buckthorn (Rhamnus cathartica; Dygioji šunobelė) Long-Leaved Violet Willow (Salix acutifolia; Smailialapis gluosnis) Goat Willow (Salix caprea; Blindė)*
Taphrina pruni is a fungal plant pathogen of blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) that causes the pocket or bladder plum gall, a chemically induced distortion of the fruit (sloes), producing swollen on one side, [1] otherwise deformed and flattened fruit gall without a stone. [2] The twigs on infected plants may also be deformed with small strap-shaped ...