Prunus Linnaeus (Q4453)
Prunus is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Amygdaleae
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Prunus is a taxon with the rank genus within the tribe Amygdaleae
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taxon/id/Prunus Linnaeus
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Prunus Linnaeus
Prunus
Linnaeus
FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
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Shrubs or trees, sometimes forming clonal thickets, 1–400 dm, glabrous or hairy.
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bark reddish, reddish-brown, gray-brown, or dark gray;
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long and short-shoots usually present;
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thorns present or absent.
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Leaves deciduous or persistent, cauline;
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stipules caducous, linear to lanceolate, margins toothed to lobed, usually glandular;
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petiole present or absent, usually glandular near blade;
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blade elliptic, oblong, suborbiculate, ovate, lanceolate, linear, obovate, oblanceolate, spatulate, fan-shaped, or rhombic, seldom folded along midribs, 0.5–18 cm, membranous to leathery, margins flat, usually entire or toothed, sometimes undulate, teeth usually glandular, sometimes eglandular.
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Inflorescences terminal on short-shoots or from axils of previous year’s leaves, 1–64 (–90) [–100] -flowered, racemes, corymbs, umbellate fascicles, 2-flowered fascicles, or solitary;
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bracts sometimes present;
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bracteoles present.
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Pedicels usually present, sometimes absent.
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Flowers usually bisexual, sometimes unisexual (then plants usually dioecious, sometimes andropolygamous), blooming before or at leaf emergence, 4–40 mm diam.;
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hypanthium 1.5–8 mm, exterior glabrous or hairy;
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sepals 5, erect to reflexed, usually triangular, semicircular, ovate, or oblong, rarely ovate-elliptic, lanceolate, or obovate;
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petals 5 (–50+ in doubled ornamentals), usually white to pink or dark-pink, sometimes yellowish, usually suborbiculate to elliptic or obovate, sometimes oblong, rarely ovate, oblanceolate, or rhombic, base usually clawed;
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stamens 10–30, usually shorter than or equal to petals, sometimes longer.
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Drupes 1, greenish yellow to yellowish or orange to bright or dark red, reddish-brown, or dark purple to black, globose to ovoid, ovoid-oblong, ellipsoid, or obovoid, 5–30 (–80) mm;
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hypanthium deciduous, rarely persistent in fruit;
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sepals falling with hypanthium;
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mesocarps usually fleshy, sometimes leathery to dry, rarely splitting along suture to reveal stone;
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endocarps forming globose to ovoid or ellipsoid to fusiform stones, sometimes flattened laterally.
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1-64(-90)[-100]-flowered
of previous year ’
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usually suborbiculate
elliptic or obovate
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greenish yellow
yellowish or orange
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globose
ovoid ovoid-oblong ellipsoid or obovoid
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globose
ovoid ovoid-oblong ellipsoid or obovoid
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globose
ovoid ovoid-oblong ellipsoid or obovoid
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globose
ovoid ovoid-oblong ellipsoid or obovoid
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flattened
sometimes; laterally
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