Taxon: Prunus sargentii Rehder

Common names:

• northern Japanese hill cherry   (Source: Websters Dict ) – English
  
• Sargent's cherry   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – English
  
• cerisier de Sargent   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – French
  
• Berg-Kirsche   (Source: Zander ed16 ) – German
  
• Sachalin-Kirsche   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• bergkörsbär   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Krussmann)
  
• Gene sources: progenitor of ornamental cherries   (fide J Amer Soc Hort Sci 134:440, 441. 2009)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  Russian Far East: Russian Federation - Primorye, Sakhalin
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Hokkaido, Honshu; Korea

• 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).
• Chang, C. S. et al. 2004. Reconsideration of Prunus sargentii complex in Korea: with respect to P. sargentii and P. takesimensis. Korean J. Pl. Taxon. 34:221–234. [this study recognized two varieties: sargentii and verecunda].
• Chang, K.-S. et al. 2007. Reconsideration of the Prunus serrulata complex (Rosaceae) and related taxa in eastern Asia. Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 154:35–54. [this study examined Prunus sargentii supporting its recognition as a distinct species from P. serrulata var. spontanea].
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2000. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 16. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• Forest Experimental Station, Korea. 1966. Illustrated woody plants of Korea.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Iezzoni, A. et al. 1990. Cherries (Prunus). Acta Hort. 190:111–173.
• Krüssmann, G. 1984. Manual of cultivated broad-leaved trees and shrubs (English translation of Handbuch der Laubgehölze. 1976).
• 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. [this study included two samples of Prunus sargentii that grouped in a cluster of most member of subgenus Cerasus].
• Lee, Y. N. 1997. Flora of Korea.
• Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium. 1976. Hortus third.
• Ma, H. et al. 2009. Evaluation of flowering cherry species, hybrids, and cultivars using simple sequence repeat markers. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 134:435–444.
• Ohta, S. et al. 2005. Genetic variation in flowering cherries (Prunus subgenus Cerasus) characterized by SSR markers. Breed. Sci. 55:415–424. [this study examined six individuals of Prunus sargentii; it found low genetic variation compared to other ornamental cherries; an analysis based on genetic similarities found that samples of this species grouped together with some samples of P. apetala and P. incisa, in disaccord to affinities in the subgenus].
• Ohta, S. et al. 2007. Phylogenetic relationships among Japanese flowering cherries (Prunus subgenus Cerasus) based on nucleotide sequences of chloroplast DNA. Pl. Syst. Evol. 263:209–225.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• 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.
• Webster's third new international dictionary.

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Synonyms:

• (=) Cerasus sachalinensis (F. Schmidt) Kom. & Aliss.
  
• (=) Prunus pseudocerasus var. sachalinensis F. Schmidt
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Prunus sachalinensis (F. Schmidt) Miyoshi
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Prunus sargentii f. compta (Koidz.) Ohwi
  
• (≡) Prunus sargentii var. sargentii
  
• (=) Prunus serrulata var. sachalinensis (F. Schmidt) E. H. Wilson
  (previously associated with 23 accessions)

Check other web resources for Prunus sargentii Rehder:

• ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority (on-line resource). for Prunus sargentii 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.

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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