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true cherries
Cerasus
Prunus subg. Cerasus is a subgenus of Prunus. Species of the subgenus have a single winter bud per axil. The flowers are usually in small corymbs or umbels of several together (occasionally solitary, e.g. P. serrula), but some species have short racemes (e.g. P. maacki). The fruit is a drupe and has no obvious groove along the side. The subgenus is native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with two species in North America...
60 branches of this group, most-observed first
wild cherry
speciesPrunus avium
Japanese Cherry
speciesPrunus serrulata
fire cherry
speciesPrunus pensylvanica
Bitter cherry
speciesPrunus emarginata
Sour Cherry
speciesPrunus cerasus
St Lucie Cherry
speciesPrunus mahaleb
Taiwan Cherry
speciesPrunus campanulata
Ground Cherry
speciesPrunus fruticosa
Yoshino cherry
hybridPrunus × yedoensis
North Japanese hill cherry
speciesPrunus sargentii
yamazakura
speciesPrunus jamasakura
Rosebud Cherry
hybridPrunus × subhirtella
Wild Himalayan Cherry
speciesPrunus cerasoides
Prunus taiwaniana
speciesPrunus taiwaniana
Miyama cherry
speciesPrunus maximowiczii
Prunus × lannesiana
hybridPrunus × lannesiana
Oshima cherry
speciesPrunus speciosa
Fuji Cherry
speciesPrunus incisa
Tibetan Cherry
speciesPrunus serrula
Prunus discoidea
speciesPrunus discoidea
Chinese sour cherry
speciesPrunus pseudocerasus
Japanese Alpine Cherry
speciesPrunus nipponica
Prunus transarisanensis
speciesPrunus transarisanensis
Prunus × blireana
hybridPrunus × blireana
Prunus leveilleana
speciesPrunus leveilleana
Prunus itosakura
speciesPrunus itosakura
Prunus × eminens
hybridPrunus × eminens
Prunus spachiana
speciesPrunus spachiana
Prunus yunnanensis
speciesPrunus yunnanensis
Puget Sound cherry
hybridPrunus × pugetensis
Prunus rufa
speciesPrunus rufa
Prunus conradinae
speciesPrunus conradinae
Prunus trichostoma
speciesPrunus trichostoma
Prunus clarofolia
speciesPrunus clarofolia
Prunus apetala
speciesPrunus apetala
Prunus himalayana
speciesPrunus himalayana
Prunus polytricha
speciesPrunus polytricha
Prunus matuurai
speciesPrunus matuurai
Prunus schneideriana
speciesPrunus schneideriana
Prunus cyclamina
speciesPrunus cyclamina
Prunus × gondouinii
hybridPrunus × gondouinii
Prunus conadenia
speciesPrunus conadenia
Prunus takesimensis
speciesPrunus takesimensis
Prunus setulosa
speciesPrunus setulosa
Prunus × compta
hybridPrunus × compta
gray-leaf cherry
speciesPrunus canescens
Prunus takasagomontana
speciesPrunus takasagomontana
Prunus × nudiflora
hybridPrunus × nudiflora
Prunus pleiocerasus
speciesPrunus pleiocerasus
Prunus canescens × cerasus
hybridPrunus canescens × cerasus
Prunus sunhangii
speciesPrunus sunhangii
Prunus × mohacsyana
hybridPrunus × mohacsyana
Prunus trichantha
speciesPrunus trichantha
Prunus himalaica
speciesPrunus himalaica
Prunus × chichibuensis
hybridPrunus × chichibuensis
Dawyck Cherry
hybridPrunus × dawyckensis
Prunus × fontanesiana
hybridPrunus × fontanesiana
Prunus × furuseana
hybridPrunus × furuseana
Prunus × takenakae
hybridPrunus × takenakae
Prunus rufoides
speciesPrunus rufoides
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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In the old herbals & bestiaries
Garden of Health (Hortus Sanitatis)
Jacob Meydenbach · 1491 · p.91
Notable Commentaries on the History of Plants
Leonhart Fuchs · 1549 · p.457
History of Rare Plants Observed in Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1583 · p.95
Ortus sanitatis
1491 · p.109
Commentaries on the Six Books of Pedanius Dioscorides on Medical Matter
Pietro Andrea Mattioli · 1565 · p.412
History of Rare Plants of Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1576 · p.98
History of Rare Plants Observed in Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1583 · p.803
History of Rare Plants Observed in Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1583 · p.773
History of Rare Plants Observed in Pannonia
Carolus Clusius · 1583 · p.9
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.817
Six Groups of the History of Plants
Rembert Dodoens · 1583 · p.817
Medical and Philosophical Garden
Joachim Camerarius · 1588 · p.367
In the stacks
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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 886528.