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plums, cherries, and allies
Prunus
Prunus is a genus of trees and shrubs, which includes the fruits plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots, and almonds.
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Bird Cherries
subgenusPadus
Prunus
subgenusPrunus
true cherries
subgenusCerasus
Mexican Plum
speciesPrunus mexicana
Weeping Cherry
speciesPrunus pendula
Desert Apricot
speciesPrunus fremontii
Desert Peach
speciesPrunus andersonii
flowering plum
speciesPrunus triloba
Prunus pedunculata
speciesPrunus pedunculata
Prunus buxifolia
speciesPrunus buxifolia
Western Cherry Laurel
speciesPrunus occidentalis
Prunus korshinskyi
speciesPrunus korshinskyi
Prunus ulmifolia
speciesPrunus ulmifolia
Prunus gentryi
speciesPrunus gentryi
Prunus ledebouriana
speciesPrunus ledebouriana
Prunus dielsiana
speciesPrunus dielsiana
Prunus klokovii
speciesPrunus klokovii
Prunus tucumanensis
speciesPrunus tucumanensis
Prunus ishidoyana
speciesPrunus ishidoyana
Prunus keredjensis
speciesPrunus keredjensis
Prunus littlei
speciesPrunus littlei
Prunus annularis
speciesPrunus annularis
Prunus carmesina
speciesPrunus carmesina
Prunus petraea
speciesPrunus petraea
Prunus salasii
speciesPrunus salasii
Prunus lundelliana
speciesPrunus lundelliana
Prunus urotaenia
speciesPrunus urotaenia
Prunus opaca
speciesPrunus opaca
Prunus albicaulis
speciesPrunus albicaulis
Prunus tuberculata
speciesPrunus tuberculata
Prunus pleuradenia
speciesPrunus pleuradenia
Prunus kurilensis
speciesPrunus kurilensis
Prunus accumulans
speciesPrunus accumulans
Prunus griffithii
speciesPrunus griffithii
Prunus limeixing
speciesPrunus limeixing
Prunus chiapensis
speciesPrunus chiapensis
Prunus brachystachya
speciesPrunus brachystachya
Prunus verrucosa
speciesPrunus verrucosa
Prunus urumiensis
speciesPrunus urumiensis
Prunus subcorymbosa
speciesPrunus subcorymbosa
Prunus rigida
speciesPrunus rigida
Prunus barbata
speciesPrunus barbata
Prunus sellowii
speciesPrunus sellowii
Prunus × juddii
hybridPrunus × juddii
Prunus paradoxa
speciesPrunus paradoxa
Prunus pseudoprostrata
speciesPrunus pseudoprostrata
Prunus samydoides
speciesPrunus samydoides
Prunus balansae
speciesPrunus balansae
Prunus jacquemontii
speciesPrunus jacquemontii
Prunus debilis
speciesPrunus debilis
Prunus wendelboi
speciesPrunus wendelboi
Prunus hirtipes
speciesPrunus hirtipes
Prunus choreiana
speciesPrunus choreiana
Prunus communis
speciesPrunus communis
Prunus shikokuensis
speciesPrunus shikokuensis
Prunus guanaiensis
speciesPrunus guanaiensis
Prunus ulei
speciesPrunus ulei
Prunus ferruginea
speciesPrunus ferruginea
Prunus axitliana
speciesPrunus axitliana
Prunus pearcei
speciesPrunus pearcei
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
The Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands, Vol. 1
Mark Catesby · 1777 · p.242
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.435
Maria Sibylla Merian — Der rupsen begin, voedzel en wonderbaare verandering (1712)
Maria Sibylla Merian · 1717 · p.267
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.350
The Great Herbary with all the figures of the herbs
1532 · p.38
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1542 · p.438
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.436
On Medical Materials in Six Books
Dioscorides · 1550 · p.165
De medicinali materia libri sex
Dioscorides · 1552 · p.171
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.1091
On the Names of Plants
Hieronymus Bock (Tragus) · 1552 · p.1088
Commentaries on the Six Books of Dioscorides
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1560 · p.278
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Prunus in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47351.