Prunus cerasus L.

ROSACEAE

- Rose family (Angiosperms - Flowering plants)

Taxon Page:

Name: Prunus cerasus L.

Nomencl. ref.: Sp. Pl.: 474 (1753)
Rank: species

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Common names

U.S. name: Sour cherry

English name: dwarf cherry

English name: Maraschino cherry

Spanish name: guindo

French name: griottier

Italian name: Amareno

German name: Weichsel

Grown habit: Tree, Shrub
Duration: Perennial

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TAXONOMY

Kingdom: Plantae
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta
Superdivision: Spermatophyta
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Subclass: Rosidae
Order: Rosales
Family: Rosaceae
Genus: Prunus
Species:

Page counter: 1635 ( AVG: 221.2 / 219.911 )

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Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Serle, Altopiano di Cariadeghe, località Calamor., BS, Lombardia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Prunus cerasus
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Serle, frutteto., BS, Lombardia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Prunus cerasus
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Prunus cerasus
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Serle, orto privato, BS, Lombardia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Prunus cerasus
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Prunus cerasus
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari

Prunus cerasus
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

Prunus cerasus
Otto Wilhelm Thomé: Flora von Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz (1885) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

Prunus cerasus
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Comune di Trieste, centro città, Civico Orto Botanico, TS, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913. An illustrated flora of the northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions. Vol. 2: 327.

Prunus cerasus
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Parigi, Jardin des Plantes, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Île-de-France, Francia, - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

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Walter Hood Fitch - Illustrations of the British Flora (1924) - Permission granted to use under GFDL by Kurt Stueber. Source: www.biolib.de - Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this image under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the section entitled "GNU Free Documentation License".

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C. Hoffmann - Botanischer Bilder-Atlas (1884) - This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired.

Prunus cerasus
Credit: Photo by Vito Buono - Bari

Prunus cerasus
Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita, Università di Trieste - Progetto Dryades - Picture by Andrea Moro - Image licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share-Alike 3.0 License

Prunus cerasus
Credit: Photo by Enrico Romani

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- Acta Plantarum - Forum and Image Gallery (Plants, Animals, Mushrooms)

Distribution in USA and Canada (*)
USA (AR, CT, DC, DE, GA, IL, IN, KS, KY, MA, MD, ME, MI, MO, MT, NC, NH, NJ, NM, NY, OH, PA, RI, UT, VA, VT, WA, WV), CAN (BC, NB, NS, ON, PE, QC)

Distributional map for Prunus cerasus L.
Map for Prunus cerasus L.
(*) USDA, NRCS. 2009. The PLANTS Database (http://plants.usda.gov, 28 August 2009). National Plant Data Center, Baton Rouge, LA 70874-4490 USA

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More species:
1) Prunus domestica L. [3012]
2) Prunus domestica L. ssp. insititia (L.) C.K. Schneid. [822]
3) Prunus domestica L. var. domestica [320]
4) Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D.A. Webb [1159]
5) Prunus emarginata (Douglas ex Hook.) D. Dietr. var. emarginata [257]
6) Prunus gracilis Engelm. & A. Gray [364]
7) Prunus ilicifolia (Nutt. ex Hook. & Arn.) D. Dietr. ssp. lyonii (Eastw.) P.H. Raven [231]
8) Prunus lyonii (Eastw.) Sarg. [164]
9) Prunus maximowiczii Rupr. [256]
10) Prunus murrayana Palmer [226]

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