Citation: L., Fl. Suec. edn 2, 165 (1755).

Synonymy: Prunus cerasifera

Common name: Sweet cherry.

Description:
Deciduous tree, rather open in habit; bark reddish-brown peeling in thin strips; leaves c. 11 x 5 cm, sparsely pubescent when young soon glabrous, obovate-elliptic, crenate-serrate, base rounded, apex acuminate; petiole 3-5 cm, with 2 glands near the apex.

Flowers on short spur-like shoots, 2-6 per umbel, subtended by budscales some of which may be leaf-like, pedicels 2-5 cm, slender; sepals oblong, reflexed; petals white; stamens numerous.

Fruit a succulent drupe 'cherry' 1.5-2.5 cm diam., shining, bright- or dark-red; endocarp 'stone' subglobose, smooth.

Distribution:  Planted in gardens and orchards in higher rainfall areas, surviving in old gardens and orchards, doubtfully naturalised. S.Aust.: SL.   Native to Europe. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Flowers; in late spring, Oct.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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