Prunus litigiosa Schneid.

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

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'Prunus litigiosa' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/prunus/prunus-litigiosa/). Accessed 2024-10-04.

Genus

Synonyms

  • P. pilosiuscula var. media Koehne, in part
  • P. rehderiana Koehne

Glossary

calyx
(pl. calyces) Outer whorl of the perianth. Composed of several sepals.
apex
(pl. apices) Tip. apical At the apex.
bloom
Bluish or greyish waxy substance on leaves or fruits.
glabrous
Lacking hairs smooth. glabrescent Becoming hairless.
inflorescence
Flower-bearing part of a plant; arrangement of flowers on the floral axis.
midrib
midveinCentral and principal vein in a leaf.
ovary
Lowest part of the carpel containing the ovules; later developing into the fruit.
ovate
Egg-shaped; broadest towards the stem.
reflexed
Folded backwards.
style
Generally an elongated structure arising from the ovary bearing the stigma at its tip.

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Credits

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

Recommended citation
'Prunus litigiosa' from the website Trees and Shrubs Online (treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/prunus/prunus-litigiosa/). Accessed 2024-10-04.

A deciduous cherry up to 20 ft or more high; young shoots glabrous. Leaves ovate to oblong with a rounded base and a slender drawn-out apex, finely toothed, often doubly so, 112 to 3 in. long, half as much wide, downy on the midrib above and in the vein-axils beneath; stalk 14 to 12 in. long. Flowers opening in April with the young leaves in pendulous clusters of two or three on a main-stalk 14 in. or less long; each flower on a glabrous stalk 34 to 1 in. long, white, 34 in. wide. Calyx-tube shortly cylindrical or funnel-shaped, the lobes triangular and ultimately reflexed; both reddish and quite glabrous. Stamens numerous, very conspicuous, 13 in. long, white or pinkish; anthers yellow; style furnished with long hairs towards the base; ovary glabrous.

Native of Hupeh, China; first discovered by Henry; introduced by Wilson in 1907 and distributed as “P. pilosiuscula media”. P. litigiosa is a very attractive tree when in bloom, with its profusely borne flowers hanging down more or less in a stiff row along the branches; they are, however, soon over. Its most closely related species is P. pilosiuscula, which has coarsely toothed leaves rough to the touch, with small stiff hairs on both sides but especially beneath; the main-stalk of the inflorescence is longer (up to 1 in.), both it and the individual stalks usually more hairy, sometimes very much more so.