Family: Rosaceae
Prunus cerasifera
Citation:
Ehrh., Beitr. Naturk. 4:17 (1789).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Cherry-plum.
Description:
Large shrub or small tree, sometimes spiny below, deciduous, young twigs and shoots sparsely pubescent soon glabrescent; leaves oblong-obovate, apex acute, crenate-serrate or entire, glabrous above, sparsely pubescent below; petiole usually without glands.
Flowers solitary or few together, with or before the leaves; pedicel slender, glabrous; calyx glabrous, the lobes rounded; petals white or pink; stamens numerous; ovary superior, glabrous, style simple.
fruit a succulent drupe, globose, yellow or reddish; endocarp (stone) subglobose, smooth, keeled.
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Image source: fig 246b in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Image source: fig 246c in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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Widely planted in gardens (horticultural forms often with purple leaves and single or double flowers), used as a stock 'Myrabolan' for budded trees, persistent in old gardens, sparingly naturalised in the settled areas.
S.Aust.: FR, NL, MU, SL, SE. Vic. Native to Eurasia.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: in spring, Aug. — Sept.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Author:
Not yet available
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