NCCWDB

Prunus spp. / Prunus / 李属植物

  • Introduction
    Prunus is a genus of trees and shrubs in the flowering plant family Rosaceae that includes plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots, and almonds. The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, being native to the North American temperate regions, the neotropics of South America, and temperate and tropical regions of Asia and Africa,There are about 340 accepted species as of March 2024.
    Prunus persica trees grow up to 7 m (23 ft) tall and wide, but when pruned properly, they are usually 3–4 m (10–13 ft) tall and wide. The leaves are lanceolate, 7–16 cm (3–6+1⁄2 in) long, 2–3 cm (3⁄4–1+1⁄4 in) broad, and pinnately veined. The flowers are produced in early spring before the leaves; they are solitary or paired, 2.5–3 cm diameter, pink, with five petals. Prunus salicina has a broadly rounded canopy, the bark is grayish-brown and undulating, the old branches are purplish-brown or reddish-brown, glabrous, the branchlets are yellowish-red, glabrous, the leaves are oblong-obovate, oblong-elliptic, sparsely oblong-ovate, 6-8(-12) cm long, 3-5 cm wide, the flowers are usually 3 concurrent, and the peduncle is 1-2 cm, usually glabrous. Prunus armeniaca is a deciduous tree, 6-10 m tall; The crown is round or oblong; Bark grayish brown, longitudinally cleft; The branches are firm and tortuous; Branchlets glabrous. Leaf blade broadly ovate or oblong-ovate, dark green, glabrous or axillary, uniformly arranged with rounded teeth.
  • Common name: / Prunus / 李属植物
  • Taxonomy: Viridiplantae; Streptophyta; Streptophytina; Embryophyta; Tracheophyta; Euphyllophyta; Spermatophyta; Magnoliopsida; Mesangiospermae; eudicotyledons; Gunneridae; Pentapetalae; rosids; fabids; Rosales; Rosaceae; Amygdaloideae; Amygdaleae; Prunus

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