Prunus dielsiana Schneid.

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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

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'Prunus dielsiana' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/prunus/prunus-dielsiana/). Accessed 2025-05-24.

Family

  • Rosaceae

Genus

Glossary

calyx
(pl. calyces) Outer whorl of the perianth. Composed of several sepals.
apex
(pl. apices) Tip. apical At the apex.
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
glandular
Bearing glands.
globose
globularSpherical or globe-shaped.
involucre
A ring of bracts surrounding an inflorescence.
midrib
midveinCentral and principal vein in a leaf.
reflexed
Folded backwards.

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Credits

Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles

Recommended citation
'Prunus dielsiana' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/prunus/prunus-dielsiana/). Accessed 2025-05-24.

A deciduous cherry up to 30 ft high; young shoots glabrous. Leaves oval, obovate, or inclined to oblong, abruptly narrowed at the apex to a short slender point, rounded or slightly heart-shaped at the base, sharply and often doubly toothed, 3 to 7 in. long, 114 to 3 in. wide, glabrous above, distinctly downy beneath, especially on the midrib and veins; stalk 14 to 58 in. long, usually downy and furnished with one to three large glands. Flowers 1 in. wide, pink or white, produced before the leaves, three to six in a cluster, each on a hairy stalk 12 to 114 in. long. Calyx-tube bell-shaped, hairy, its reflexed awl-shaped lobes longer than the tube; petals narrowly oval, deeply notched at the end. Fruits globose, 13 in. wide, red. The flowers spring from the axis of an involucre of conspicuously glandular-fringed bracts. Bot. Mag., n.s., t. 174.

Native of W. Hupeh, China; introduced in 1907 by Wilson. It has about the same degree of beauty as the other wild cherries introduced by Wilson at the same time, but is rather distinct on account of the downy undersurface of its large leaves, the hairy flower-stalks, and the very glandular-edged bracts. Nearly related to it is Prunus cyclamina, q.v..