Taxon: Prunus cocomilia Ten.

Common names:

• Italian plum   (Source: Mansf Ency ) – English
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Human food: fruit   (fide Mansf Ency)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of Japanese plum   (based on affinities to Prunus cerasifera fide Tree Genet Genomes 6:43. 2010)
  
• Gene sources: tertiary genetic relative of plum   (based on affinities to Prunus domestica fide Tree Genet Genomes 6:43. 2010)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Western Asia: Turkey [w.]
• EUROPE
  Southeastern Europe: Albania; Croatia; Greece; Italy [s. & Sicily]; Macedonia; Montenegro

References:

• Davis, P. H., ed. 1965–1988. Flora of Turkey and the east Aegean islands.
• Depypere, L. et al. 2009. A combined morphometric and AFLP based diversity study challenges the taxonomy of the European members of the complex Prunus L. section Prunus. Pl. Syst. Evol. 279:219–231. [used as an outgroup and comparison of characters].
• Euro+Med Editorial Committee. Euro+Med Plantbase: the information resource for Euro-Mediterranean plant diversity (on-line resource).
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. 1:518.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Pignatti, S. 1982. Flora d'Italia.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Reales, A. et al. 2010. Phylogenetics of Eurasian plums, Prunus L. section Prunus (Rosaceae), according to coding and non-coding chloroplast DNA sequences. Tree Genet. Genomes 6:37–45.
• Rehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Prunus cocomilia.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Prunus cocomilia.

Synonyms:

• (=) Prunus pseudoarmeniaca Heldr. & Sartori
  

Check other web resources for Prunus cocomilia Ten.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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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