Prunus gentryi

Prunus gentryi is a species of wild cherry in the genus Prunus, family Rosaceae, native to the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora. It grows along streambanks in mountainous regions of the Sierra Madre Occidental.[1][2] The scientific description was published in 1937.[3][4][5]

Prunus gentryi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Prunus
Species:
P. gentryi
Binomial name
Prunus gentryi

Prunus gentryi is a tree up to 12 m tall. Leaves are thick and leathery, dark green above and lighter below. Fruits are juicy and edible, generally purple although a yellow-fruited form, Prunus gentryi forma flavipulpa, is known from the State of Chihuahua.[6][7]

Uses

The Mountain Pima (= Pima Bajo) of the region near Yepachic, Chihuahua, call the tree and its fruits "aguasiqui." The fruits are a prized food, ripening in late summer.[8]

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References
  1. Gentry, H.S. 1942. Rio Mayo plants. Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication 537.
  2. Laferrière, Joseph E. 1994. Vegetation and flora of the Mountain Pima village of Nabogame, Chihuahua, Mexico. Phytologia 77:102-140.
  3. Paul C. Standley (1937). "Studies of American Plants - VII (description on pages 194–195)". Publication. Field Museum of Natural History. Botanical series. 17 (2): 155–224.
  4. Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed 15 Dec 2013
  5. https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.uc582261
  6. Felger et al. 2001. Trees of Sonora, Mexico. Oxford University Press.
  7. Laferrière, Joseph E. 1989 A yellow-fruited form of Prunus gentryi (Rosaceae). Phytologia 65(6):482.
  8. Laferrière, Joseph E., Charles W. Weber and Edwin A. Kohlhepp. 1991. Use and nutritional composition of some traditional Mountain Pima plant foods. Journal of Ethnobiology 11(1):93-114.


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