Scientific name:

Oemleria cerasiformis

Vernacular name:

Osoberry

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Osoberry

Scientific name: Oemleria cerasiformis (Torr. & A. Gray ex Hook. & Arn.) J.W. Landon

Diagnostic features
Suckering shrub with erect stems to 2(3)m.
Leaves lanceolate to narrowly elliptic, 7-11cm.
Flowers c.5-10 in short pendent racemes, scented.
Petals greenish-white.
Fruit 10-15mm, bluish-black, bloomed, rarely produced.

Chromosome number: (2n=12).

Habitat
Introduced-naturalized.

Distribution
On rough ground in Mons, Middlesex, East Sussex and West Kent; West North America.

This species is keyed out on Page 2312: Prunus & Oemleria in the Text Key.

Oemleria cerasiformis (Torr. & A. Gray ex Hook. & Arn.) J.W. Landon
Osmaronia cerasiformis (Torr. & A. Gray ex Hook. & Arn.) Greene

Osoberry [English]

Oemleria cerasiformis 2 (Female flowers, picture taken in cultivation by C.A. Stace)
Oemleria cerasiformis 3 (Fruiting, picture taken in cultivation by C.A. Stace)
Oemleria cerasiformis 4 (Male flowers, picture taken in cultivation by C.A. Stace)
Oemleria cerasiformis a (Flowering branch, drawing by H. Thompson in Stace, 1997)

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