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Scientific name:

Prunus incisa

Vernacular name:

Cherry, Fuji


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Fuji Cherry

Scientific name: Prunus incisa Thunb.

Diagnostic features
Deciduous shrub or small tree to 6(10)m.
Leaves 4-8cm, ovate to narrowly so, long-acuminate, 2-serrate, with acuminate teeth.
Flowers 1-4, mostly 3.
Petals pink.
Fruit 6-8mm, ovoid, purplish-black.

Chromosome number: (2n=16).

Habitat
Introduced-naturalized; in oakwoods on clay-with-flints.

Distribution
Chinnor Hill (Oxon); Japan.

This species is keyed out on Page 2322 in the Text Key.

Prunus incisa (Cherry, Fuji)
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