Prunus fasciculata |
Prunus subhirtella |
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desert almond, desert peach, wild almond |
Higan cherry, winter-flowering cherry |
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Habit | Shrubs, suckering, much branched, 10–20(–30) dm, thorny. | Trees, not suckering, 30–100 dm, not thorny. | ||||
Twigs | with axillary end buds, glabrous or canescent. |
with terminal end buds, hairy. |
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Leaves | deciduous; sessile; blade oblanceolate to linear, 0.5–2 × 0.1–0.2(–0.4) cm, base long-attenuate, margins nearly entire or obscurely and remotely serrulate in distal 1/3, teeth blunt to sharp, sometimes glandular, apex rounded to acute, surfaces puberulent or glabrous or low-papillate (var. punctata). |
deciduous; petiole 5–10 mm, hairy, glandular distally or on margins at bases of blades; blade elliptic, oblong-ovate, or ovate, 3–8 × 1.5–4 cm, base obtuse, margins doubly serrate, teeth sharp, glandular, apex acuminate, abaxial surface hairy along midribs and veins, adaxial glabrous or with appressed hairs along midrib. |
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Inflorescences | solitary flowers or 2-flowered fascicles. |
2–5-flowered, umbellate fascicles. |
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Pedicels | 0–4 mm, glabrous. |
8–22 mm, hairy. |
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Flowers | unisexual, plants dioecious, blooming at leaf emergence; hypanthium campanulate, 1.5–3 mm, glabrous externally; sepals erect-spreading, triangular, 0.7–1 mm, margins entire, surfaces glabrous; petals white to yellowish, elliptic, obovate, or suborbiculate, 1.4–2.5(–4) mm; ovaries hairy. |
blooming before leaf emergence; hypanthium tubular to tubular-urceolate, 4–7 mm, hairy externally; sepals erect to spreading, oblong-ovate, 2–5 mm, margins toothed, sometimes glandular, abaxial surface sparsely hairy, adaxial glabrous; petals pale pink, oblong to obovate, 8–12 mm; ovaries glabrous. |
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Drupes | gray to red-brown, ovoid, ± compressed, 7–15 mm, densely puberulent; hypanthium tardily deciduous; mesocarps leathery to dry; stones ovoid, ± flattened. |
black, subglobose, 8 mm, glabrous; mesocarps fleshy; stones ellipsoid, not flattened. |
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2n | = 24 (Japan). |
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Prunus fasciculata |
Prunus subhirtella |
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Phenology | Flowering Mar–Apr; fruiting Jun. | |||||
Habitat | Disturbed sites, abandoned plantings | |||||
Elevation | 0–200 m (0–700 ft) | |||||
Distribution |
AZ; CA; NV; UT; nw Mexico
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DC; OH; VA; e Asia (Japan) [Introduced in North America] |
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Discussion | Varieties 2 (2 in the flora). (Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.) |
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Key |
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Source | FNA vol. 9, p. 370. | FNA vol. 9, p. 369. | ||||
Parent taxa | Rosaceae > subfam. Amygdaloideae > tribe Amygdaleae > Prunus | Rosaceae > subfam. Amygdaloideae > tribe Amygdaleae > Prunus | ||||
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Synonyms | Emplectocladus fasciculatus | |||||
Name authority | (Torrey) A. Gray: Proc. Amer. Acad. Arts 10: 70. (1874) | Miquel: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi 2: 91. (1865) | ||||
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