Prunus subg. Cerasus
Prunus subg. Cerasus is a subgenus of Prunus, characterised by having the flowers in small corymbs of several together (not singly, nor in racemes), and by having smooth fruit with only a weak groove along one side, or no groove. The subgenus is native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with two species in America, three in Europe, and the remainder in Asia. Other cherry fruits are borne on racemes and called bird cherries.
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rosaceae |
| Genus: | Prunus |
| Subgenus: | Prunus subg. Cerasus (Mill.) A.Gray, 1856 |
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Bird cherries are sometimes used as a food plant by Lepidoptera species including the brimstone moth.[1]
Some cherries, such as chokecherries, are used to make jelly and wine in North America. Prunus cerasoides is cultivated as an ornamental tree. The tree thrives in well-drained and moisture-retentive loamy soil, in an open, sunny, and sheltered location.
Species
- Prunus apetala (Siebold & Zucc.) Franch. & Sav. – clove cherry
- Prunus avium (L.) L. – sweet cherry, wild cherry, mazzard or gean
- Prunus campanulata Maxim. – Taiwan cherry, Formosan cherry or bell-flowered cherry
- Prunus canescens Bois. – grey-leaf cherry
- Prunus cerasoides D. Don. – wild Himalayan cherry
- Prunus cerasus L. – sour cherry
- Prunus cyclamina Koehne – cyclamen cherry or Chinese flowering cherry
- Prunus dielsiana C.K. Schneid. – tailed-leaf cherry
- Prunus emarginata (Douglas ex Hook.) Walp. – Oregon cherry or bitter cherry
- Prunus fruticosa Pall. – European dwarf cherry, dwarf cherry, Mongolian cherry or steppe cherry
- Prunus grayana Maxim. – Japanese bird cherry or Gray's bird cherry
- Prunus humilis Bunge – Chinese plum-cherry or humble bush cherry
- Prunus ilicifolia (Nutt. ex Hook. & Arn.) Walp. – hollyleaf cherry, evergreen cherry, holly-leaved cherry or islay
- Prunus incisa Thunb. – Fuji cherry
- Prunus jamasakura Siebold ex Koidz. – Japanese mountain cherry or Japanese hill cherry
- Prunus japonica Thunb. – Korean cherry
- Prunus laurocerasus L. – cherry laurel
- Prunus lyonii (Eastw.) Sarg. – Catalina Island cherry
- Prunus mahaleb L. – Saint Lucie cherry, rock cherry, perfumed cherry or mahaleb cherry
- Prunus maximowiczii Rupr. – Miyama cherry or Korean cherry
- Prunus myrtifolia (L.) Urb. – West Indian cherry
- Prunus napaulensis (Ser.) Steud. – Nepal bird cherry
- Prunus nipponica Matsum. – Takane cherry, peak cherry or Japanese alpine cherry
- Prunus occidentalis Sw. – western cherry laurel
- Prunus padus L. – bird cherry or European bird cherry
- Prunus pensylvanica L.f. – pin cherry, fire cherry, or wild red cherry
- Prunus pleuradenia Griseb. – Antilles cherry
- Prunus prostrata Labill. – mountain cherry, rock cherry, spreading cherry or prostrate cherry
- Prunus pseudocerasus Lindl. – Chinese sour cherry or false cherry
- Prunus rufa Wall ex Hook.f. – Himalayan cherry
- Prunus salicifolia Kunth. (=P. serotina) – capulin, Singapore cherry or tropic cherry
- Prunus sargentii Rehder – Sargent's cherry
- Prunus serrula Franch. – paperbark cherry, birch bark cherry or Tibetan cherry
- Prunus serrulata Lindl. – Japanese cherry, hill cherry, Oriental cherry or East Asian cherry
- Prunus speciosa (Koidz.) Ingram – Oshima cherry
- Prunus ssiori Schmidt - Hokkaido bird cherry
- Prunus stipulacea Maxim.
- Prunus subhirtella Miq. – Higan cherry or spring cherry
- Prunus takesimensis Nakai – Takeshima flowering cherry
- Prunus tomentosa Thunb. – Nanking cherry, Manchu cherry, downy cherry, Shanghai cherry, Ando cherry, mountain cherry, Chinese dwarf cherry, Chinese bush cherry
- Prunus verecunda (Koidz.) Koehne – Korean mountain cherry
- Prunus virginiana L. – chokecherry
- Prunus × yedoensis Matsum. – Yoshino cherry or Tokyo cherry
References
- Zhang, Xiaoshuang; Jiang, Zhilin; Yusupov, Ziyoviddin; Zhang, Menghua; Zhang, Daigui; Tojibaev, Komiljon; Meng, Ying; Deng, Tao (February 2019). "Prunus sunhangii: A new species of Prunus from central China". Plant Diversity. 41 (1): 19–25. doi:10.1016/j.pld.2019.01.003. PMC 6412158. PMID 30931414.
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