The finely sawed cherry [3] , or the finely sawed cherry [4] ( lat. Prunus serrulata ) is a species of trees of the genus Plum ( Prunus ) of the family Pink ( Rosaceae ).
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Content
- 1 Distribution
- 2 Forms
- 3 Botanical Description
- 4 In culture
- 5 notes
Distribution
Japan , the Korean Peninsula and part of China [5] .
The slopes of the mountains in mixed forests [4] .
Forms
- f. perpendens - with long weeping branches.
- f. albo-plena - with white terry flowers.
- f. roseo-plena - with pink double flowers.
- f. lannesiana ( Cerasus lannesiana ) - with fragrant white or pink double flowers [4] .
Botanical Description
Tree up to 25 meters tall. Crohn ovate. The bark is brownish or brownish-gray, smooth. Shoots are yellowish-gray, bare.
Leaves are elliptical, ovate or obovate, up to 13 cm long, up to 5 cm wide with a suddenly long drawn apex, round, heart-shaped or wedge-shaped base.
Flowers 2–4 in hands up to 5 cm long. Corolla white or pink 2.5-3 cm in diameter.
The fruit is a round-ellipsoidal drupe slightly suspended at the apex, about 8 mm long, 5-7 mm wide. In the beginning it is purplish black, later black. Inedible. The bone is ovoid, 6 × 4 mm.
Flowering in April-May [4] .
In Culture
Introduced into the culture for a long time, as a decorative-flowering species. In Japan, it is considered one of the types of sakura - Satodzakura ( 里 桜 - "rural cherry"). On the territory of the former USSR, it was grown in St. Petersburg, Latvia and Estonia (where it is not hardy). Winters successfully in Kiev, Rostov-on-Don, Pyatigorsk, Yerevan, Lviv, Transcarpathia, on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. In the Nikitsky Botanical Garden, it is sensitive to drought, in protected areas it blooms profusely [4] .
Notes
- ↑ For the conventionality of indicating the class of dicotyledons as a superior taxon for the plant group described in this article, see the APG Systems section of the Dicotyledonous article .
- ↑ Padus serrulata (Lindl.) S.Ya.Sokolov . The Plant List. Date of treatment March 20, 2016.
- ↑ The Russian name of the taxon is given according to the article by L. A. Lukichev. Cherry collection as a source material for selection // Transactions of the Nikitsky Botanical Garden. - 2010 .-- T. 132 . (inaccessible link)
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 Sokolov S. Ya. Genus 36. Padus - Bird cherry // Trees and shrubs of the USSR. Wild, cultivated and promising for introduction. / Ed. volumes S. Ya. Sokolov . - M. - L .: Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR , 1954. - T. III. Angiosperms. Trochodendron families - Rosaceae. - S. 762-122. - 872 s. - 3000 copies.
- ↑ Prunus serrulata Lindl. // Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). (English) (Retrieved March 13, 2016)