Taxon: Prunus fruticosa Pall.

Common names:

• European dwarf cherry   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• European ground cherry   (Source: Hortus 3 ) – English
  
• ground cherry   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – English
  
• Mongolian cherry   (Source: NRCS Cons Pl Mat ) – English
  
• steppe cherry   (Source: World Econ Pl ) – English
  
• cao yuan ying tao   (Source: F ChinaEng [as Cerasus fruticosa]) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• prunier nain   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – French
  
• Steppenkirsche   (Source: Zander ed14 ) – German
  
• Zwergekirsche   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• cereja-anã   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• stäppkörsbär   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard)
  
• Environmental: revegetator   (for land reclamation fide L. Gilbert, pers. comm. 1998)
  
• Human food: potential as fruit   (fide F USSR; Acta Hort 190:122. 1990)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock relative for sour cherry   (fide HortSci (Prague) 29:133. 2002)
  
• Gene sources: graft stock relative for sweet cherry   (fide J Amer Soc Hort Sci 132:671-672. 2007)
  
• Gene sources: potential for crop quality in sweet cherry   (for inducing precocity fide Acta Hort 190:132. 1990; Temp Fruit Cr Breed 168. 2008, for late blooming)
  
• Gene sources: progenitor of sour cherry   (fide Genet Genom Rosaceae 14:294. 2009)
  
• Gene sources: secondary genetic relative of sweet cherry   (based on spontaneous hybriziation with Prunus avium fide Genet Genom Rosaceae 293. 2009)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Caucasus: Russian Federation - Ciscaucasia
  Siberia: Russian Federation - Western Siberia
  Middle Asia: Kazakhstan
  China: China - Xinjiang
• EUROPE
  Middle Europe: Austria; Czechoslovakia; Germany; Hungary; Poland
  East Europe: Belarus; Moldova; Russian Federation - European part [s. & c.]; Ukraine
  Southeastern Europe: Bulgaria; Italy; Romania

• naturalized elsewhere

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Blazková, J. & I. Hlusicková. 2002. Testing of wood hardiness to winter freezes in selections from progenies of Cerapadus × Prunus avium L. crosses. Hort. Sci. 29:133–142. [mentions a complex hybrid involving Prunus fruticosa × P. pensylvanica used as a graft stock for sour cherry].
• Bortiri, E. et al. 2001. Phylogeny and systematics of Prunus (Rosaceae) as determined by sequence analysis of ITS and the chloroplast trnL-trnF spacer DNA. Syst. Bot. 26:797–807. [this study included Prunus fruticosa as a representative of subgenus Cerasus section Cerasus; this species clustered sister to species of section Pseudocerasus].
• Bortiri, E. et al. 2006. Phylogenetic analysis of morphology in Prunus reveals extensive homoplasy. Pl. Syst. Evol. 259:53–71.
• Bouhadida, M. et al. 2007. Chloroplast DNA diversity in Prunus and its implication on genetic relationships. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 132:670–679. [this study tested five samples involving Prunus fruticosa and graft stock hybrids derived from it; their haplotype was also shared with some members of subgenus Prunus section Armeniaca, and other accessions of Cerasus except Microcerasus].
• Czerepanov, S. K. 1995. Vascular plants of Russia and adjacent states (the former USSR). [= Cerasus fruticosa (Pall.) Woronow].
• Dirlewanger, E. et al. 2009. Sweet and sour cherries:linkage maps, QTL detection and marker assisted selection. Pp. 14:291–313 in: Folta, K. M. et al., eds., Genetics and genomics of Rosaceae.
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Encke, F. et al. 1993. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 14. Auflage.
• Englert, J. M. et al. 1999–. USDA-NRCS Improved conservation plant materials released by NRCS and cooperators.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• Gilbert, L. 1998. pers. comm. [re. English common names].
• Gleason, H. A. & A. Cronquist. 1963. Manual of vascular plants of northeastern United States and adjacent Canada.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hrotkó, K. 2004. Cherry rootstock breeding at the Department of Fruit Science, Budapest. Acta Hort. 658:491–495. [artificial hybrids of Prunus fruticosa with Prunus mahaleb have graft stock potential].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Iezzoni, A. F. 2008. Chapter 5. Cherries. Pp. 151–175 in: Hancock, J. F., ed., Temperate fruit crop breeding: germplasm to genomics.
• Iezzoni, A. et al. 1990. Cherries (Prunus). Acta Hort. 190:111–173.
• Komarov, V. L. et al., eds. 1934–1964. Flora SSSR. [= Cerasus fruticosa (Pall.) Woronow].
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• Lang, G. et al. 1997. Biotic and abiotic stress responses of interspecific hybrid cherry rootstocks. Acta Hort. 451:217–224. [this study found Prunus fruticosa samples to be sensitive to viral diseases].
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Rehder, A. 1949. Bibliography of cultivated trees and shrubs.
• Tutin, T. G. et al., eds. 1964–1980. Flora europaea.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition). [= Cerasus fruticosa (Pall.) Woronow].

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Prunus fruticosa.

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

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Prunus fruticosa.

Synonyms:

• (≡) Cerasus fruticosa (Pall.) Woronow
  
• (=) Prunus cerasus var. pumila L.
  
• (=) Prunus chamaecerasus Jacq.
  (previously associated with 11 accessions)
• (=) Prunus fruticosa f. pendula Dippel
  (previously associated with 1 accession)

Check other web resources for Prunus fruticosa Pall.:

• Flora Europaea: Database of European Plants (ESFEDS)
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• 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 fruticosa 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:

• GRIN Images of germplasm accessions.
• Stone: 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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