Family: Rosaceae
Prunus laurocerasus
Citation:
L., Sp. Pl. 474 (1753).
Synonymy: Not Applicable Common name: Cherry-laurel.
Description:
Evergreen shrub or small tree, glabrous; leaves 5-18 cm long, oblong-obovate, base cuneate or rounded, apex acuminate, dark-green and glossy, sparsely serrate to subentire, thick and coriaceous.
Flowers in racemes, numerous, small; petals c. 4 mm long, white.
Fruit succulent, ovoid, purple-black.
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Image source: fig 246g in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Distribution:
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Planted as a shrub and hedge, occasionally spontaneous.
Native to Eurasia.
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Conservation status:
naturalised
Flowering time: in late spring.
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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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