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Overview:

Similar to 'Schipkaensis', but lower growing (to 5' tall with a spread of 20') with more narrow foliage and a free-flowering habit.

Taxonomy

Notes:

An accepted name in the RHS Horticultural Database.

Physical Description

Family Rosaceae:

Trees, shrubs, or herbs, deciduous or evergreen. Stems erect, scandent, arching, prostrate, or creeping, armed or unarmed. Buds usually with several exposed scales, sometimes with only 2. Leaves alternate, rarely opposite, simple or compound; stipules paired, free or adnate to petiole, rarely absent, persistent or deciduous; petiole usually 2-glandular apically; leaf blade often serrate at margin, rarely entire. Inflorescences various, from single flowers to umbellate, corymbose, racemose or cymose-paniculate. Flowers usually actinomorphic, bisexual, rarely unisexual and then plants dioecious. Hypanthium (formed from basal parts of sepals, petals, and stamens) free from or adnate to ovary, short or elongate. Sepals usually 5, rarely fewer or more, imbricate; epicalyx segments sometimes also present. Petals as many as sepals, inserted below margin of disk, free, imbricate, sometimes absent. Disk lining hypanthium, usually entire, rarely lobed. Stamens usually numerous, rarely few, always in a complete ring at margin of or above disk; filaments usually free, very rarely connate; anthers small, didymous, rarely elongate, 2-locular. Carpels 1 to many, free, or ± connate and then adnate to inner surface of cupular receptacle; ovary inferior, semi-inferior, or superior; ovules usually 2 in each carpel, rarely 1 or several, anatropous, superposed. Styles as many as carpels, terminal, lateral, or basal, free or sometimes connate. Fruit a follicle, pome, achene, or drupe, rarely a capsule, naked or enclosed in persistent hypanthium and sometimes also by sepals. Seeds erect or pendulous, sometimes winged, usually exalbuminous, very rarely with thin endosperm; cotyledons mostly fleshy and convex abaxially, rarely folded or convolute.

Between 95 and 125 genera and 2825-3500 species: cosmopolitan, mostly in N temperate zone; 55 genera (two endemic) and 950 species (546 endemic) in China.

Many plants of this family are of economic importance and contribute to people s livelihoods. The Rosaceae contain a great number of fruit trees of temperate regions. The fruits contain vitamins, acids, and sugars and can be used both raw and for making preserves, jam, jelly, candy, various drinks, wine, vinegar, etc. The dried fruits of the genera

Amygdalus and Armeniaca are of high commercial value. Some plants in the genus Rosa containing essential oils or with a high vitamin content are used in industry. Rosaceae wood is used for making various articles, stems and roots are used for making tannin extract, and young leaves are used as a substitute for tea. Numerous species are used for medical purposes or are cultivated as ornamentals.

The Rosaceae are very well represented in China, with great economic and scientific importance. The Co-chairs of the Editorial Committee (Wu and Raven) here note that the patterns of relationship are complex and the group is taxonomically difficult. ^[1]

Genus Prunus:

Trees or shrubs, deciduous. Branchlets sometimes spine-tipped. Axillary winter bud solitary, ovoid; terminal winter bud absent. Stipules membranous, soon caducous. Leaves simple, alternate, convolute [or conduplicate] when young; petiolate or sessile; petiole apex or base of leaf blade margin with or without nectaries; leaf blade margin variously crenate or coarsely serrate. Inflorescences apparently axillary, solitary or to 3-flowered in a fascicle; bracts small, soon caducous. Flowers opening before or at same time as leaves. Hypanthium campanulate. Sepals 5, imbricate. Petals 5, white, sometimes purple-veined, rarely greenish, inserted on rim of hypanthium, imbricate. Stamens 20-30, in 2 whorls; filaments unequal. Carpel 1; ovary superior, 1-loculed, glabrous or sometimes villous; ovules 2, collateral, pendulous. Style terminal, elongated. Fruit a drupe, glabrous, often glaucous, usually with a longitudinal groove; mesocarp fleshy, not splitting when ripe; endocarp laterally compressed, smooth, rarely grooved or rugose.

About 30 species: Asia, Europe, North America; seven species (two endemic, three introduced) in China.

Many plum species are cultivated for their edible fruit and some for their flowers.^[2]

ID Features: Small, evergreen tree. Alternate leaf arrangement. Serrate leaf margins. Buds are sessile and globose, 6 exposed scales. 1 to 2 pairs of glands on leaf base. White flowers, fragrant. Black fruit. •

Habit: An evergreen small tree with a dense, rounded form.

Flowers: White flowers. Blooms in late April. Flowers borne in racemes, 2" to 5" long. Fragrant. • Flower Color: White • Flower Conspicuous: Tiny cup-shaped flowers in clusters

Seeds: Fruit: Black drupe. 0.5" long. Matures in mid-summer.

Foliage: Very narrow, leathery • Foliage Shape: Oblong • Normal foliage color: Green • Underside foliage: Green • Juvenile foliage: Green • Mature foliage: Green • New foliage: Green • Spring foliage: Green • Summer foliage: Alternate leaf arrangement. Simple, evergreen leaves. 2" to 6" long. Leaf width in half the length. Obovate leaf shape. Minutely serrated leaf margins. Dark green leaf color. 1 to 2 pairs of glands on leaf base. • Fall foliage: No fall color. • Winter foliage: Green

Landscaping

Landscape Uses: Hedge. Specimen. Massing or grouping. For shade planting. • Liabilities: Relatively pest free for Prunus sp.. • Care: Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring. For a tidy, neat appearance, shear annually to shape.

Growth

Culture: Transplant from B&B or container. Prefers moist, well-drained soil with organic matter. Full sun to part shade. Prune tolerant.

Soil: Soil: Tolerates a range of pH, from 4.5 to 7.5, and soil ranging from sandy loam to some clay. Soil can be normal to moist.

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full to partial sun

Moisture: Water Requirements: Water regularly, when top 3 in. of soil is dry.

Temperature: Heat Zones: High: 9 (>120 to 150 days) Low:3 (>7 to 14 days) (map) • Cold Hardiness: High:9 (20 to 30 F) Low:6 (-10 to 0 F) (map)

Similar Species

Members of the genus Prunus:

There are approximately 4,462 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus. Here are just 100 of them: P. apetala pilosa · P. cerasifera pissardii · P. cerasifera pissartii · P. divaricata ursina · P. domestica insititia · P. emarginata mollis · P. fasciculata punctata · P. persica domestica · P. persica nucipersica · P. persica platycarpa · P. serotina eximia · P. serotina virens · P. spinosa coaetanea · P. subcordata kelloggii · P. subcordata oregana · P. subcordata rubicunda · P. virginiana melanocarpa · P. 'Accolade' (Flowering Cherry) · P. 'Amanogawa' · P. 'Amayadori' · P. 'Aratama' · P. 'Ariake' · P. 'Asagi' · P. 'Asano' · P. 'Avimag' · P. 'Benden' · P. 'Beni Yataka' · P. 'Beni-no-dora' · P. 'Beni-yutaka' · P. 'Birch Bark' · P. 'Blaze' · P. 'Blushing Bride' · P. 'Bruce' (Plum) · P. 'Candy Floss' · P. 'Champagne Dream' · P. 'Cheal's Weeping' · P. 'Chocolate Ice' · P. 'Choshu-hizakura' · P. 'Collingwood Ingram' · P. 'Colt' · P. 'Comet' · P. 'Daikoku' · P. 'Dawsar' · P. 'Delight' (Cherry Plum) · P. 'Delma' · P. 'Dream Catcher' (Flowering Cherry) · P. 'Edo-zakura' · P. 'Ethel' · P. 'Fereley' · P. 'Ferlenain' · P. 'First Lady' · P. 'Fudan-zakura' · P. 'Fugenzo' · P. 'Fuki' · P. 'Geraldinae' · P. 'Gisela 4' · P. 'Gisela 5' · P. 'Gisela 5a' · P. 'Golden Nectar' (European Plum) · P. 'Gyoiko' · P. 'Hana-kagoto' · P. 'Hanagasa' · P. 'Hillieri Spire' · P. 'Hillieri' · P. 'Hilling's Weeping' · P. 'Hisakura' · P. 'Hokusai' · P. 'Horinji' · P. 'Ichiyo' · P. 'Imose' · P. 'Jo-nioi' · P. 'Kanzan' · P. 'Kiku-shidare-zakura' · P. 'Kiku-zakura' · P. 'Korros' · P. 'Kouka' · P. 'Kulilensis Ruby' · P. 'Kursar' · P. 'Little Pink Perfection' · P. 'Mahogany Lustre' · P. 'Matsuma-Usugasanesomei' · P. 'Matsumae' · P. 'Matsumae-akathu Kinokane' · P. 'Matsumae-akatsu-kinokane' · P. 'Matsumae-akatsukinaden' · P. 'Matsumae-aratama' · P. 'Matsumae-beni-murasaki' · P. 'Matsumae-beni-tamanishiki' · P. 'Matsumae-benigasa' · P. 'Matsumae-benitame' · P. 'Matsumae-fuki' · P. 'Matsumae-hana-gasa' · P. 'Matsumae-hana-guruma' · P. 'Matsumae-hana-miyako' · P. 'Matsumae-hanakagoto' · P. 'Matsumae-hayazaki' · P. 'Matsumae-kosenji Shiroyae' · P. 'Matsumae-mathimur-zakura' · P. 'Matsumae-myojo' · P. 'Matsumae-oshio'

Bibliography

• Judd, W.S., Campbell, C.S., Kellog, E.A. & Donoghue, M.J. (2002): Plant Systematics: a phylogenetic approach, Sinauer, Sunderland, Mass.
• Yü Te-tsun, Lu Ling-ti, Ku Tsue-chih, Li Chao-luan, Kuan Ke-chien & Chiang Wan-fu. 1974, 1985, 1986. Rosaceae. In: Yü Te-tsun, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 36: 1443; 37: 1516; 38: 1133.

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Notes

Contributors:

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-2006. Systema Naturae 2000. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Accessed October 4, 2006.

Identifiers:

• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 710588

Footnotes:

1. Cuizhi Gu, Chaoluan Li, Lingdi Lu, Shunyuan Jiang, Crinan Alexander, Bruce Bartholomew, Anthony R. Brach, David E. Boufford, Hiroshi Ikeda, Hideaki Ohba, Kenneth R. Robertson & Steven A. Spongberg "Rosaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 9 Page 46. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.
2. Ku Tsue-chih, Bruce Bartholomew "Prunus". in Flora of China Vol. 9 Page 401. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org.