Prunus kansuensis
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Article from Bean's Trees and Shrubs Hardy in the British Isles
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'Prunus kansuensis' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.
Genus
Synonyms
- Amygdalus kansuensis (Rehd.) Skeels
Other taxa in genus
- Prunus alleghaniensis
- Prunus americana
- Prunus × amygdalo-persica
- Prunus amygdalus
- Prunus angustifolia
- Prunus apetala
- Prunus arabica
- Prunus argentea
- Prunus armeniaca
- Prunus avium
- Prunus besseyi
- Prunus brigantina
- Prunus campanulata
- Prunus canescens
- Prunus cantabrigiensis
- Prunus cerasifera
- Prunus cerasus
- Prunus cocomilia
- Prunus concinna
- Prunus conradinae
- Prunus consociiflora
- Prunus cornuta
- Prunus cuthbertii
- Prunus dasycarpa
- Prunus davidiana
- Prunus × dawyckensis
- Prunus dielsiana
- Prunus domestica
- Prunus dulcis
- Prunus emarginata
- Prunus × fontanesiana
- Prunus fruticosa
- Prunus glandulosa
- Prunus grayana
- Prunus himalaica
- Prunus hortulana
- Prunus humilis
- Prunus ilicifolia
- Prunus incana
- Prunus incisa
- Prunus jacquemontii
- Prunus lannesiana
- Prunus laurocerasus
- Prunus litigiosa
- Prunus lusitanica
- Prunus maackii
- Prunus mahaleb
- Prunus maritima
- Prunus maximowiczii
- Prunus microcarpa
- Prunus mira
- Prunus mugus
- Prunus mume
- Prunus nigra
- Prunus nipponica
- Prunus orthosepala
- Prunus padus
- Prunus pensylvanica
- Prunus persica
- Prunus pilosiuscula
- Prunus prostrata
- Prunus pumila
- Prunus rufa
- Prunus salicina
- Prunus sargentii
- Prunus serotina
- Prunus serrula
- Prunus serrulata
- Prunus sibirica
- Prunus × sieboldii
- Prunus simonii
- Prunus sogdiana
- Prunus speciosa
- Prunus spinosa
- Prunus ssiori
- Prunus subcordata
- Prunus subhirtella
- Prunus takesimensis
- Prunus tangutica
- Prunus tenella
- Prunus tomentosa
- Prunus triloba
- Prunus virginiana
- Prunus × yedoensis
A tall, deciduous shrub or a small tree up to 20 ft high with a smooth, brown trunk. Leaves lanceolate, slender-pointed, 2 to 4 in. long, 3⁄8 to 11⁄4 in. wide, finely toothed, hairy along the midrib; stalk 1⁄8 to 3⁄16 in. long. Flowers crowded on the naked glabrous shoots, mostly in pairs and making cylindrical spikes 1 to 11⁄2 ft long; they are white, 3⁄4 in. wide, pink in bud; petals roundish ovate, 3⁄8 in. long; calyx grey, hairy outside, ciliate, the lobes oblong-ovate, 1⁄8 in. long; stamens white, anthers and style yellow.
Native of N.W. China, introduced to California by Meyer in 1914. It will be welcomed in gardens for its early blossoms which (regulated by the weather) may appear any time in late January or February. It is closely related to the common peach, the stone being widely, shallowly grooved but not pitted. Award of Merit when shown from Kew February 5, 1957.