Prunus avium |
Prunus yedoensis |
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cerisier des oiseaux, sweet cherry, wild cherry |
Yoshino cherry |
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Habit | Trees, not suckering, 60–200 dm, not thorny. | Trees, not suckering, 40–80(–160) dm, not thorny. |
Twigs | with terminal end buds, glabrous. |
with terminal end buds, sparsely hairy. |
Leaves | deciduous; petiole (14–)20–40 mm, nearly glabrous or sparsely hairy adaxially, glandular distally or on margins at bases of blades, glands 1–3, discoid; blade oblong, elliptic-obovate, or obovate, (4–)7–14 × (2.5–)4–8.5 cm, base obtuse to rounded, margins doubly crenate-serrate, teeth blunt, glandular, apex abruptly short-acuminate, abaxial surface moderately hairy (especially midribs and veins), adaxial glabrous. |
deciduous; petiole 10–20 mm, hairy, sometimes glandular distally, glands 1–2; blade elliptic-ovate to obovate, 5–12 × 2.5–7 cm, base rounded, margins doubly serrate, teeth aristate, glandular, apex acuminate, abaxial surface hairy along midribs and veins, adaxial glabrous. |
Inflorescences | 1–3-flowered, umbellate fascicles. |
2–6-flowered, corymbs; central axes 4–8(–20) mm. |
Pedicels | (14–)25–52 mm, glabrous. |
15–25 mm (subtended by leafy bracts), hairy. |
Flowers | blooming at leaf emergence; hypanthium tubular-urceolate, 5–7 mm, glabrous externally; sepals reflexed, oblong, 4–6 mm, margins entire or sparsely and irregularly toothed, surfaces glabrous; petals white, obovate to suborbiculate, 12–15 mm; ovaries glabrous. |
blooming before leaf emergence; hypanthium tubular, 7–8 mm, hairy externally; sepals spreading, ovate-lanceolate, 4–5 mm, margins glandular-toothed, abaxial surface hairy, adaxial sparsely hairy; petals white or pink, broadly elliptic to obovate, 13–15 mm; ovaries glabrous. |
Drupes | dark red to purplish black, globose, 13–30 mm, glabrous; mesocarps fleshy; stones subglobose, not flattened. |
black, subglobose, 7–12 mm, glabrous; mesocarps fleshy; stones ellipsoid, not flattened. |
2n | = 16. |
= 16 (Japan). |
Prunus avium |
Prunus yedoensis |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–May; fruiting Jun–Jul. | Flowering Mar–Apr; fruiting May. |
Habitat | Roadsides, stream banks, forest edges, disturbed forests | Abandoned plantings, disturbed sites |
Elevation | 0–1600 m (0–5200 ft) | 0–200 m (0–700 ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CT; DC; DE; ID; IL; IN; KY; MA; MD; ME; MI; NC; NH; NJ; NY; OH; OR; PA; RI; SC; TN; UT; VA; WA; WV; WY; BC; NB; NS; ON; Eurasia [Introduced in North America]
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CA; DC; WA; e Asia (Japan) [Introduced in North America] |
Discussion | Cultivars of Prunus avium are grown in North America both for their attractive flowers, especially where the Japanese ornamental cherries are not hardy, and for their sweet fruits. Most of the sweet cherry crop in North America is grown in the Pacific Coast states and in Michigan and Ontario. Most varieties are self-incompatible and require pollen from a variety in a different incompatibility group in order to set fruits. (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 368. | FNA vol. 9, p. 369. |
Parent taxa | Rosaceae > subfam. Amygdaloideae > tribe Amygdaleae > Prunus | Rosaceae > subfam. Amygdaloideae > tribe Amygdaleae > Prunus |
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Synonyms | P. cerasus var. avium | |
Name authority | (Linnaeus) Linnaeus: Fl. Suec. ed. 2, 165. (1755) | Matsumura: Bot. Mag. (Tokyo) 15: 100. (1901) |
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