Bird Cherry
Scientific name: Prunus padus L.
Diagnostic features
Deciduous shrub or tree to 19m.
Leaves 5-10cm, obovate to elliptic, glabrous or with white hairs in tufts along lowerside midrib.
Flowers in elongate ± erect to pendent racemes.
Pedicels 8-15mm in flower.
Petals 6-9mm, white; fruit 6-8mm, ± globose, shiny-black.
Chromosome number: 2n=32.
Habitat
Native; woods and scrub.
Distribution
Britain from Central England and South Wales to North Scotland, very scattered in Ireland, also much planted and naturalized in South & Central England.
This species is keyed out on Page 2316 in the Text Key. |
