Taxon: Prunus cerasifera Ehrh.

See also subordinate taxa:

• Prunus cerasifera var. divaricata (29 accessions)

Common names:

• cherry plum   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• myrobalan plum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – English
  
• kersiepruim   (Source: Weeds SAfr 2001 ) – Afrikaans
  
• ying tao li   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• bacarinier   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – French
  
• cerisette   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – French
  
• mirobolan   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• prunier cerise   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – French
  
• prunier myrobolan   (Source: L Noms French ed7 ) – French
  
• Kirschpflaume   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• Kirschpflaumenbaum   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – German
  
• Myrobalane   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German
  
• türkische Pflaume   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – German
  
• ciliegio susine   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  
• mirobalano   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Italian
  
• abrunheiro   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Portuguese
  
• cerejeira-roxa   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• corcoduş   (Source: S. Demetrescu, p.c.) – Romanian
  
• arañón   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• ciruela chabacana   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• ciruelo mirobolán   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Spanish
  
• guindo   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – Spanish
  
• mirobolán   (Source: Dict Rehm ) – Spanish
  
• körsbärsplommon   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Human food: fruit   (mainly for preserves fide Food Feed Crops US; Invasive Pl Spec; F ChinaEng)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock relative for almond   (in complex hybrids involving almond and peach fide Theor Appl Genet 109:828. 2004)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock relative for apricot   (fide Pl Breed 124:68. 2005)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock relative for peach   (fide Hancock et al. 2008)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock relative for plum   (fide Breed Pl Tree Crops 214. 2009)
  
• Gene sources: primary genetic relative of myrobalan plum   (fide Breed Pl Tree Crops 161-231. 2009)
  
• Gene sources: probable progenitor of plum   (fide Tree Genet Genomes 6:44. 2010)
  
• Gene sources: progenitor of nectarine   (a hybrid with Prunus persica fide J Amer Soc Hort Sci 132:677. 2007)
  
• Gene sources: progenitor of plumcot   (from crosses with Prunus armeniaca fide Breed Tree Crops 184. 2009)
  
• Gene sources: research in plant biology   (fide Euphytica 166:85. 2009)
  
• Gene sources: secondary genetic relative of Japanese plum   (based on records of Prunus cerasifera as a progenitor of complex hybrids with P. salicina fide Acta Hort 622:476. 2003)
  
• Gene sources: secondary genetic relative of peach   (based on complex hybrids with Prunus persica fide J Amer Soc Hort Sci 132:677. 2007)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of almond   (based on genetic affinities to Prunus dulcis fide Pl Syst Evol 259:62. 2006)
  
• Weed   (fide Invasive Pl Spec)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Afghanistan; Iran; Iraq; Turkey
  Caucasus: Armenia; Azerbaijan; Georgia; Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia, Dagestan
  Middle Asia: Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan; Turkmenistan
  China: China - Xinjiang
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Pakistan
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Bulgaria; Croatia; Greece; Macedonia

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: India
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia
  New Zealand: New Zealand
• EUROPE
  Northern Europe: United Kingdom
  Middle Europe: Czech Republic; Slovakia
  Europe
• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States

• widely cultivated

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More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Prunus cerasifera.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Prunus cerasifera.

Synonyms:

• (=) Prunus cerasifera var. atropurpurea H. Jaeger
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• (=) Prunus cerasifera subsp. myrobalana (L.) C. K. Schneid.
  (previously associated with 4 accessions)
• (=) Prunus cerasifera var. pissardii (Carrière) L. H. Bailey
  
• (=) Prunus cerasifera var. woodii (Späth) Rehder
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Prunus divaricata Ledeb. [≡ Prunus cerasifera var. divaricata]
  (previously associated with 27 accessions)
• Prunus divaricata subsp. divaricata [= Prunus cerasifera var. divaricata]
  (previously associated with 16 accessions)
• Prunus divaricata subsp. nairica Kovalev [= Prunus cerasifera var. divaricata]
  
• (=) Prunus korolkowii R. Vilm.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Prunus myrobalana (L.) Loisel.
  
• (=) Prunus pissardii Carrière
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• Prunus sogdiana Vassilcz. [= Prunus cerasifera var. divaricata]
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Prunus cerasifera Ehrh.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• 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
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Prunus cerasifera 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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