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. |