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
    0–2300 m
    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;