Prunus mahaleb Linnaeus (Q4461)

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Prunus mahaleb is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Prunus
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Prunus mahaleb Linnaeus
Prunus mahaleb is a taxon with the rank species within the genus Prunus

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    taxon/id/Prunus mahaleb Linnaeus
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    Prunus mahaleb Linnaeus
    Prunus mahaleb
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    cerisier de Sainte-Lucie (French)
    mahaleb (French)
    bois de Sainte-Lucie (French)
    cerisier mahaleb (French)
    mahaleb cherry (English)
    perfumed cherry (English)
    rock cherry (English)
    St. Lucie cherry (English)
    Mahaleb or perfumed or St. Lucie cherry (English)
    1 reference
    Douglas, G.W., G.B. Straley, D.V. Meidinger & J. Pojar. 1998. Illustrated Flora of British Columbia. B.C. Ministry of Environment, Lands & Parks and B.C. Ministry of Forests. Victoria. Crown Publications. 8 vols.
    1 reference
    Newmaster, S.G., A. Lehela, M.J. Oldham, P.W.C. Uhlig & S. McMurray. 1998. Ontario Plant List. Ontario Forest Research Institute, Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. Forest Information Paper No. 123. 550 pp.
    Eurasia
    Flowering Apr–May; fruiting Jun–Jul.
    roadsides
    stream banks
    limestone bluffs
    quarries
    thickets
    fencerows
    Shrubs or trees, not suckering, 30–150 dm, not thorny.
    Twigs with terminal end buds, densely puberulent.
    petiole 4–20 mm, glabrous or ± puberulent on adaxial surface, sometimes glandular distally, glands 1–2, discoid;
    blade broadly ovate, oblong, or suborbiculate, 1.9–4.5 × 1.2–3.4 cm, base usually rounded to truncate, sometimes subcordate, margins crenate, teeth blunt, glandular, apex abruptly acuminate, apicula obtuse, surfaces usually glabrous, sometimes midribs and veins hairy abaxially.
    Inflorescences 4–10-flowered, corymbs;
    Pedicels 6–18 mm (subtended by leafy bracts), glabrous.
    Flowers blooming at leaf emergence;
    hypanthium conic-campanulate, 2–3 mm, glabrous externally;
    sepals reflexed, oblong, 1.3–2 mm, margins entire, surfaces glabrous;
    petals white, elliptic to obovate, 6–7 mm;
    ovaries glabrous.
    Drupes dark red to black, ovoid, 6–10 mm, glabrous;
    mesocarps leathery;