Prunus avium (L.) L.
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Prunus avium (L.) L., Fl. Suec. 2, 165 (1755)
Prunus avium (L.) L.
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(L.) L.
L.
L.
1755
165
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Prunus avium
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Prunus avium (L.) L.
Deciduous, suckering, spreading tree, 5-12-(15) m high when mature, not armed; trunk tall. Lf petiole 12-60-(70) mm long, glabrous; blade ± thin, usually obovate to broadly elliptic, sometimes narrowly obovate or orbicular, (30)-40-130-(150) × (25)-30-60-(70) mm, acute to short-acuminate at apex, obtuse at base, glabrous or glabrate above, tomentose below when young (rarely glabrate), soon glabrous, 1-2-serrate with teeth obtuse or subacute; stipules acuminate, deciduous. Fls in umbel-like clusters of (1)-2-4, on very short shoots, not fragrant, pendent; pedicels (12)-25-50 mm long, green and glabrous. Hypanthium urceolate; sepals triangular, 3-5 mm long, blunt, glabrous, usually tinged purplish, soon becoming strongly reflexed. Petals usually 5 but sometimes many in double fls, (9)-11-19 × (5)-8-17 mm, ± broadly elliptic-oblong or elliptic-obovate, shallowly emarginate, white. Stamens ± = petals; filaments whitish. Fr. 8-17 mm diam. (to c. 30 mm in cultivation), globose or nearly so, glabrous, dark red, occasionally remaining pinkish red, usually ± sweet, sometimes rather bitter; stone smooth.
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1 January 2000
31 December 2023