Prunus lusitanica Linnaeus (Q4483)

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

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    taxon/id/Prunus lusitanica Linnaeus
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    Prunus lusitanica Linnaeus
    Prunus lusitanica
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    Portugal laurel (English)
    Portuguese laurel cherry (English)
    Portuguese laurel (English)
    laurier du Portugal (French)
    prunier du Portugal (French)
    Portugal laurel (English)
    Flowering May–Jul; fruiting Aug–Nov.
    thickets
    urban forests
    Shrubs or trees, not suckering, 30–80 (–200) dm, not thorny.
    Twigs with terminal end buds, glabrous.
    Leaves persistent;
    petiole 14–20 mm, glabrous, eglandular;
    blade elliptic, oblong-ovate, or ovatelanceolate, 6–13 × 2.5–7 cm, base obtuse to rounded, margins crenate-dentate, teeth blunt, glandular, apex acuminate, surfaces glabrous, abaxial eglandular, if glands present, restricted to margins.
    Inflorescences 18–60 [–100] -flowered, racemes;
    Pedicels 7–15 (–22) mm, glabrous.
    Flowers blooming after leaf emergence;
    hypanthium cupulate, 2.5–3.5 mm, glabrous externally;
    sepals spreading to reflexed, semicircular, 1–1.5 mm, margins entire, ± ciliate, abaxial surface glabrous, adaxial hairy;
    petals white, suborbiculate to obovate, 4–7 mm;
    ovaries glabrous.
    Drupes dark purple, ovoid to conic-ovoid, 8–12 mm, glabrous;
    mesocarps fleshy to leathery;