Prunus laurocerasus Linnaeus (Q4460)

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

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    taxon/id/Prunus laurocerasus Linnaeus
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    Prunus laurocerasus Linnaeus
    Prunus laurocerasus
    Linnaeus
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2014. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 9: Magnoliophyta: Picramniaceae to Rosaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    laurier-cerise (French)
    cherry laurel (English)
    common cherry laurel (English)
    Common cherry laurel (English)
    laurel 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.
    Eurasia
    Flowering Mar–May; fruiting Aug–Nov.
    riparian thickets
    shaded ravines
    understory
    second-growth forests
    0–600 m
    Shrubs or trees, sometimes suckering, 20–60 (–100) dm, not thorny.
    Twigs with terminal end buds, glabrous.
    Leaves persistent;
    petiole 5–15 mm, glabrous, eglandular;
    blade elliptic to obovate, 6–18 × 3–7 cm, base cuneate to obtuse, margins remotely serrulate or nearly entire, teeth blunt, glandular, apex abruptly short-acuminate, apicula acute, surfaces glabrous, abaxial glandular, glands 1–several, proximal, flat, circular to oval.
    Inflorescences 26–32-flowered, racemes;
    Pedicels 1–5 mm, glabrous.
    Flowers blooming before leaf emergence;
    hypanthium cupulate, 3–4 mm, glabrous externally;
    sepals spreading, triangular, 0.7–1.2 mm, margins usually entire, sometimes with deciduous glands, ciliate in spots, surfaces glabrous or hairy;
    petals white, obovate or broadly elliptic to suborbiculate, 3–5 mm;
    ovaries glabrous.
    Drupes deep purple-red to nearly black, ovoid to conic-ovoid, 13–17 mm, glabrous;
    mesocarps fleshy to leathery;
    stones ovoid, not flattened.