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[4] Large trees measured for possible inclusion as Tennessee Champion Trees included a 27-inch-diameter (690 mm) black cherry, a 46-inch southern red oak, a 62-inch shumard oak, and 9-inch pawpaw. A total of 332 flowering plant species were recorded in 85 families; three-quarters of the species were native. [5]
Prunus serotina is a pioneer species. In the Midwest, it is seen growing mostly in old fields with other sunlight-loving species, such as black walnut, black locust, and hackberry. Gleason and Cronquist (1991) describe P. serotina as "[f]ormerly a forest tree, now abundant as a weed-tree of roadsides, waste land, and forest-margins". [22]
Prunus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs from the family Rosaceae, which includes plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots and almonds (collectively stonefruit).The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, [4] being native to the temperate regions of North America, the neotropics of South America, and temperate and tropical regions of Eurasia and Africa, [5] There are about 340 ...
Trees up to 30 m (98 ft) tall have been found growing in the southern Appalachians, with the largest found on the western slopes of the Great Smoky Mountains. Its foliage is thin, [ 5 ] with leaves 4–11 cm ( 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 – 4 + 1 ⁄ 4 in) long and 1–4.5 cm ( 3 ⁄ 8 – 1 + 3 ⁄ 4 in) wide.
Prunus mahaleb, the mahaleb cherry [6] or St Lucie cherry, is a species of cherry tree. The tree is cultivated for a spice obtained from the seeds inside the cherry stones. The seeds have a fragrant smell and have a taste comparable to bitter almonds with cherry notes. The tree is native to central and southern Europe, Iran and parts of central ...
Prunus avium, sweet cherry P. cerasus, sour cherry Germersdorfer variety cherry tree in blossom. Prunus subg.Cerasus contains species that are typically called cherries. They are known as true cherries [1] and distinguished by having a single winter bud per axil, by having the flowers in small corymbs or umbels of several together (occasionally solitary, e.g. P. serrula; some species with ...
Prunus virginiana, commonly called bitter-berry, [3] chokecherry, [3] Virginia bird cherry, [3] and western chokecherry [3] (also black chokecherry for P. virginiana var. demissa), [3] is a species of bird cherry (Prunus subgenus Padus) native to North America.
Prunus cerasus (sour cherry, [3] tart cherry, or dwarf cherry) [4] is an Old World species of Prunus in the subgenus Cerasus . It has two main groups of cultivars : the dark-red Morello cherry and the lighter-red Amarelle cherry .