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Foodplant / parasite
Erysiphe prunastri parasitises Prunus cerasifera

Plant / resting place / within
ovum of Hoplocampa chrysorrhoea may be found in ovary of Prunus cerasifera

Foodplant / internal feeder
larva of Phytobia cerasiferae feeds within stem (cambium) of Prunus cerasifera
Other: sole host/prey

Foodplant / pathogen
Plum Pox virus infects and damages grooved, pitted, banded fruit of Prunus cerasifera

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This species is widely cultivated throughout much of China for its fruit and flowers, with many horticultural varieties and forms. The purplish-leaved form, Prunus cerasifera f. atropurpurea (Jacquin) Rehder, is often planted as a garden ornamental in N China.
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Flora of China Vol. 9: 402 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Description

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Shrubs or trees, to 8 m tall. Branches dark gray, sometimes spiny; branchlets dark red, glabrous. Winter buds purple; scale margins sometimes sparsely ciliate. Stipules lanceolate, margin glandular serrulate, apex acuminate. Petiole 6–12 mm, usually glabrous or sometimes sparsely pubescent when young, without nectaries; leaf blade elliptic, ovate, obovate, or rarely elliptic-lanceolate, (2–)2–6 × 2–6(–6) cm, abaxially pale green and pubescent on midvein, adaxially dark green and glabrous, base cuneate to subrounded, margin crenate or sometimes doubly crenate, apex acute. Flowers solitary, rarely 2 in a fascicle, 2–2.5 cm in diam. Pedicel 1–2.2 cm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Hypanthium outside glabrous. Sepals narrowly ovate, outside glabrous, margin shallowly serrate, apex obtuse. Petals white, oblong to spatulate, base cuneate, margin undulate, apex obtuse. Stamens 25–30. Ovary villous. Stigma disc-shaped. Drupe yellow, red, or black, subglobose to ellipsoid, 2–3 cm in diam., slightly glaucous; endocarp ellipsoid to ovoid, smooth or scabrous, sometimes pitted. Fl. Apr, fr. Aug.
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Distribution

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S.W. Europe, C. Asia, sometimes cultivated.
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Annotated Checklist of the Flowering Plants of Nepal Vol. 0 in eFloras.org, Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed Nov 12, 2008.
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Distribution

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Xinjiang [Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan; SW Asia, S Europe].
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Elevation Range

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1800 m
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Habitat

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Forests, stream sides in valleys, gravelly slopes, also cultivated; 800--2000 m.
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Synonym

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Prunus cerasifera subsp. myrobalana (Linnaeus) C. K. Schneider; P. domestica Linnaeus var. myrobalana Linnaeus; P. sogdiana Vassilczenko.
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Prunus cerasifera

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Prunus cerasifera is a species of plum known by the common names cherry plum and myrobalan plum.[2] It is native to Southeast Europe[3][4][5] and Western Asia,[2][6] and is naturalised in the British Isles[3] and scattered locations in North America.[7][8][9] Also naturalized in parts of SE Australia where it is considered to be a mildly invasive weed of bushland near urban centers.

Description

Wild types are large shrubs or small trees reaching 8–12 m (25–40 feet) tall, sometimes spiny, with glabrous, ovate deciduous leaves 3–7 cm (1–3 in) long.[3]: 196  It is one of the first European trees to flower in spring,[3] often starting in mid-February before the leaves have opened. The flowers are white or pale pink and about 2 cm (34 in) across, with five petals and many stamens. The fruit is an edible drupe, 2–3 cm in diameter, ripening to yellow or red from early July to mid-September. They are self-fertile but can also be pollinated by other Prunus varieties such as the Victoria plum.[10] The plant propagates by seed or by suckering, and is often used as the rootstock for other Prunus species and cultivars.[3]

Cultivation

The cherry plum is a popular ornamental tree for garden and landscaping use, grown for its very early flowering. Numerous cultivars have been developed, many of them selected for purple foliage, such as P cerasifera var pissardii (Carrière) L.H. Bailey (P. 'Atropurpurea').[3][11] The cultivar 'Nigra' with black foliage and pink flowers, has gained the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit.[12] Prunus × cistena (purple leaf sand cherry), a hybrid of Prunus cerasifera and Prunus pumila, the sand cherry, also won the Award of Garden Merit.[13] [14][15] These purple-foliage forms (often called 'purple-leaf plum'), also have dark purple fruit, which make an attractive, intensely coloured jam. They can have white or pink flowers. The cultivar 'Thundercloud' has bright red foliage which darkens purple.[16] Others, such as 'Lindsayae', have green foliage. Some kinds of purple-leaf plums are used for bonsai[11] and other forms of living sculpture.

Cultivated cherry plums can have fruits, foliage, and flowers in any of several colours. Some varieties have sweet fruits that can be eaten fresh, while others are sour and better for making jam. Cherry plums are a key ingredient in Georgian cuisine where they are used to produce tkemali sauce, as well as a number of popular dishes, such as kharcho soup and chakapuli stew. It is a popular tree in Romania where its fruits are used for souring soups when immature, for eating raw when ripened, and for making moonshine when overripe because of their high sugar content.

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Notes

  1. ^ Prunus 'pissardii' and Prunus 'pissardii nigra' are cases of named cultivars being given binomial-style names

References

  1. ^ "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species". Retrieved 27 January 2014.
  2. ^ a b UConn Horticulture Archived 14 April 2010 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ a b c d e f Stace, C. A. (2010). New Flora of the British Isles (Third ed.). Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521707725.
  4. ^ Altervista Flora Italiana, Prunus cerasifera Ehrh. includes photos and European distribution map
  5. ^ "UC/JEPS: Jepson Manual treatment for Prunus cerasifera". berkeley.edu.
  6. ^ Flora of China, Prunus cerasifera Ehrhart, 1789. 樱桃李 ying tao li
  7. ^ Flora of North America, Prunus cerasifera Ehrhart, 1784. Cherry plum, myrobalan
  8. ^ "University of Washington Herbarium Image Collection - Burke Museum". washington.edu.
  9. ^ "Calflora taxon report, University of California: Prunus cerasifera". calflora.org.
  10. ^ Titmarsh, Alan (2008). The Kitchen Gardener. BBC Books. p. 247.
  11. ^ a b Pissard Plum Fact Sheet
  12. ^ "RHS Plant Selector Prunus cerasifera 'Nigra' AGM / RHS Gardening". Apps.rhs.org.uk. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  13. ^ "Prunus × cistena". RHS. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
  14. ^ Plant Facts, Prunus x cistena - Purpleleaf Sand Cherry (Rosaceae)
  15. ^ Nazareth College, Purpleleaf Sand Cherry Prunus x cistena Archived 2016-03-06 at the Wayback Machine/
  16. ^ Thundercloud Fact Sheet

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Prunus cerasifera: Brief Summary

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Prunus cerasifera is a species of plum known by the common names cherry plum and myrobalan plum. It is native to Southeast Europe and Western Asia, and is naturalised in the British Isles and scattered locations in North America. Also naturalized in parts of SE Australia where it is considered to be a mildly invasive weed of bushland near urban centers.

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