Prunus grayana
| Prunus grayana | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rosaceae |
| Genus: | Prunus |
| Subgenus: | Prunus subg. Padus |
| Species: | P. grayana
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| Binomial name | |
| Prunus grayana Maxim. | |
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Prunus grayana (
It is a small
hermaphroditic, and appear in mid-spring after the leaves. The fruit is a small drupe, about 8 mm in diameter, green at first, then red and finally ripening black in mid summer.[2][3][5][6][7]
It is very closely related to
Uses
The flowers, fruit and seed are all edible and are prepared and eaten in Japan. The fruit can be preserved with salt to make a dish called
Classification
The taxon was described in 1864 by
St. Petersburg decided in 1883[11] the tree was a distinct species, and named it Prunus grayana after Asa Gray
.
References
- ^ "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species". Retrieved January 27, 2014.
- ^ a b Flora of China: Padus grayana
- ^ a b c Japanese Tree Encyclopedia: Uwamizuzakura Prunus grayana Archived 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Prunus grayana". Germplasm Resources Information Network. Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture. Retrieved 21 January 2018.
- ^ Botanic Japan: Prunus grayana (in Japanese; google translation.
- ^ ISBN 0-333-47494-5.
- ^ "Prunus grayana Japanese Bird Cherry, Japanese Bird Cherry PFAF Plant Database".
- ^ Flora of China: Padus
- ^ Plants for a Future: Prunus grayana
- ^ Ohba, H., Akiyama, S., & Thijsse, G. (2003). Miquel's new taxa of the vascular plants described from Japan in Prolusio Florae Japonicae and some other works. Page 3
- Maximovicz, J.C. (1883). "Diagnoses plantarum asiaticarum". Bulletin de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences. XXIX (27): 51–228. For the details of the publication including the dates of the volumes and the reprint of the article in Mélange ... see Pagès, Léon; Wenckstern, Friedrich von; Palmgren, Valfrid (1895). A Bibliography of the Japanese Empire. Leiden: E. J. Brill. p. 223.
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