Japanese Cherry
Scientific name: Prunus serrulata Lindl.
Diagnostic features
Deciduous tree to 12m.
Leaves 5-12cm, ovate to obovate or narrowly so, long-acuminate, with aristate teeth.
Flowers 2-6 in umbels.
Petals white or pink.
Fruit ± globose, black, but rarely formed.
Chromosome number: (2n=16).
Habitat
Introduced-survivor.
Distribution
Much planted by roads and in parks, and often found as relic in wild places in much of British Isles; Japan and China.
This species is keyed out on Page 2322 in the Text Key.
Note
Many cultivars, often flore pleno (commonest, with pink petals, is 'Kanzan') and usually grafted on to Prunus avium as stock; not naturalized. |
