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It is a deciduous shrub, irregular in shape, 0.3–3 m (rarely 4 m) high and possibly somewhat wider.The bark is glabrous and copper-tinted black. The leaves are alternate, 2–7 cm long and 1–3.5 cm broad, oval to obovate, acuminate with irregularly serrate margins, rugose, dark green, pubescent above and tomentose below, with glandular petioles.
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 ...
Description [ edit ] Greengage fruit are identified by their round-oval shape and smooth-textured, pale green flesh; they are on average smaller than round plums but larger than mirabelle plums —usually between 2 and 4 centimetres (1 and 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) diameter.
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 × keredjensis (Browicz) A.E.Murray; Prunus × kubotana Kawas. Prunus × lannesiana (Carrière) E.H.Wilson; Prunus × mitsuminensis Moriya; Prunus × miyasakana H.Kubota; Prunus × mohacsyana Kárpáti; Prunus × mozaffarianii (Khat.) Eisenman; Prunus × nudiflora (Koehne) Koidz. Prunus × oneyamensis Hayashi; Prunus × orthosepala ...
P. tomentosa has been suggested as a plant to use in carbon capture projects. P. tomentosa has large leaves that readily absorb pollutants, and also has value in timber and aesthetics, adding to interest surrounding its use in carbon capture. [21] Inaccurate citation practices have led to circulating claims that P. tomentosa performs C 4 carbon ...
With this classification, the genus Prunus is considered to include Armeniaca, Cerasus, Amygdalus, Padus, Laurocerasus, Pygeum, and Maddenia. Robert Frost alluded to the merging of Amygdalaceae into Rosaceae in his poem The Rose Family , [ 7 ] when he wrote "The rose is a rose and was always a rose / But the theory now goes that the apple's a ...
Tomentose leaves and flowers. Cotyledon tomentosa is a perennial evergreen shrub, which is a member of the Crassulaceae family of succulent flowering plants. [7] C. tomentosa has red, orange, or yellow bell-shaped flowers between July and September, [12] [7] and there are two recognized subspecies, subsp. tomentosa and subsp. ladismithiensis.