Taxon: Prunus caroliniana (Mill.) Aiton

Common names:

• Carolina laurel cherry   (Source: Names Beetle ) – English
  
• cherry-laurel   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• laurel cherry   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• mock orange   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• wild orange   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Krussmann)
  
• Vertebrate poisons: mammals   (fide Kingsbury)
  

More:

View toxicology references for Prunus caroliniana from FDA Poisonous Plant Database

View ethnobotanical data from Moerman's Native American Ethnobotany Database

Distributional range:

• NORTHERN AMERICA (Check conservation status in U.S. & Canada in NatureServe Explorer database)
  Southeastern U.S.A.: United States - Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina [s.e.], South Carolina
  South-Central U.S.A.: United States - Texas

• naturalized elsewhere

• also cultivated

References:

• Beetle, A. A. 1970. Recommended plant names. Univ. Wyoming Agr. Exp. Sta. Res. J. 31.
• Bortiri, E. et al. 2006. Phylogenetic analysis of morphology in Prunus reveals extensive homoplasy. Pl. Syst. Evol. 259:53–71.
• Correll, D. S. & M. C. Johnston. 1970. Manual of the vascular plants of Texas.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Kingsbury, J. M. 1964. Poisonous plants of the United States and Canada.
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• Lance, R. 2004. Woody plants of the southeastern United States.
• Lee, S. & J. Wen. 2001. A phylogenetic analysis of Prunus and the Amygdaloideae (Rosaceae) using ITS sequences of nuclear ribosomal DNA. Amer. J. Bot. 88:150–160. [as "Prunus caroliniana Aiton"].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Little, E. L., Jr. 1979. Checklist of United States trees, Agric. Handb. 541.
• Munz, P. A. & D. D. Keck. 1959. A California flora.
• Munz, P. A. 1974. A flora of southern California.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Radford, A. E. et al. 1964. Manual of the vascular flora of the Carolinas.
• Rohrer, J. R. 2011. Prunus (Rosaceae). In: FNA Editorial Committee, Flora of North America. 9: in press.
• Wunderlin, R. & B. Hansen. Atlas of Florida vascular plants (on-line resource).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Prunus caroliniana.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Prunus caroliniana.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Prunus caroliniana.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Laurocerasus caroliniana (Mill.) M. Roem.
  
• (≡) Padus caroliniana Mill. (basionym)
  

Check other web resources for Prunus caroliniana (Mill.) Aiton:

• Flora of North America: Collaborative Floristic Effort of North American Botanists
• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Prunus caroliniana cultivars
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Images:

• Fruit: U.S. National Seed Herbarium image

More:

• Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
• Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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