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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 ...
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 .
Fruit anatomy is the plant anatomy of the internal structure of fruit. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] In berries and drupes , the pericarp forms the edible tissue around the seeds. In other fruits such as citrus and stone fruits ( Prunus ) only some layers of the pericarp are eaten.
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 ...
Prunus subg.Cerasus is a subgenus of Prunus. Species of the subgenus have a single winter bud per axil. [1] [note 1] The flowers are usually in small corymbs or umbels of several together (occasionally solitary, e.g. P. serrula), but some species have short racemes (e.g. P. maacki).
Prunus padus, known as bird cherry, hackberry, hagberry, or Mayday tree, is a flowering plant in the rose family. It is a species of cherry , a deciduous small tree or large shrub up to 16 metres (52 ft) tall.
Prunus domestica is a species of flowering plant in the family Rosaceae. A deciduous tree, it includes many varieties of the fruit trees known as plums in English, though not all plums belong to this species.
The almond (Prunus amygdalus, syn. Prunus dulcis) is a species of tree from the genus Prunus. Along with the peach , it is classified in the subgenus Amygdalus , distinguished from the other subgenera by corrugations on the shell ( endocarp ) surrounding the seed.