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Prunus Sect. Prunocerasus
''Prunus'' sect. ''Prunocerasus'' (meaning plum-cherry) is a Section (botany), section of the genus ''Prunus''. Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne, Koehne originally described it as comprising the North American plums and placed it in the subgenus ''Prunus subg. Cerasus, Cerasus''. The section is now generally recognized as belonging to Prunus subg. Prunus, ''Prunus'' subg. ''Prunus''. Species attributed to this section include: * ''Prunus alleghaniensis, P. alleghaniensis'' Porter * ''Prunus americana, P. americana'' Marshall * ''Prunus angustifolia, P. angustifolia'' Marshall * ''Prunus geniculata, P. geniculata'' R.M.Harper * ''Prunus gracilis, P. gracilis'' George Engelmann, Engelm. & Asa Gray, A.Gray * ''Prunus hortulana, P. hortulana'' Liberty Hyde Bailey, L.H.Bailey * ''Prunus maritima, P. maritima'' Marshall * ''Prunus mexicana, P. mexicana'' Sereno Watson, S.Watson * ''Prunus munsoniana, P. munsoniana'' Wight & Hedrick * ''Prunus murrayana, P. murrayana'' E.J.Palmer * ''Prunu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne
Bernhard Adalbert Emil Koehne (12 February 1848 – 12 October 1918) was a German botanist and dendrologist born near Striegau, a town known today as Strzegom, Poland. Koehne was a professor of botany in Berlin and was a leading authority of the plant family Lythraceae. In Adolf Engler's treatise ''Das Pflanzenreich'' ("The Plant Kingdom"), he was author of the chapter on Lythraceae. He also made important contributions involving Lythraceae to Engler and Karl Prantl's '' Die Natürlichen Pflanzenfamilien'' ("The Natural Plant Families"), as well as to Karl Friedrich Philipp von Martius' '' Flora Brasiliensis''. Another noted written effort by Koehne was the 1893 ''Deutsche Dendrologie'' ("German Dendrology"). Two plant genera have been named in his honor; '' Koehneola'' from Cuba, in the (family Asteraceae) was named in 1901, and '' Koehneria'' from Madagascar, in the family Lythraceae in 1987. Koehne edited and distributed the exsiccata Exsiccata (Latin, ''gen.'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus Munsoniana
''Prunus rivularis'', known variously by the common names creek plum, hog plum, or wild-goose plum is a thicket-forming shrub. It prefers calcareous clay soil or limestone-based woodland soils. This deciduous plant belongs to the rose family, Rosaceae, and is found mainly in the central United States. It is a shrub consisting of slender stems with umbel clusters of white blossoms. The fruit is a drupe that resembles a large berry; though it has a bitter taste, it serves as a source of food for birds and other wildlife. ''"Prunus"'' is Latin for plum, whereas ''"rivularis"'' means being near a stream. Description The leaves are simple and alternately arranged along the stems. The general shape of the leaf ranges between elliptic and ovate and is gauged out to be long and wide. The base shape of the leaf is considered cuneate while the apex is acuminate. The margin or edges is described as serrate; usually with 10–11 teeth per centimeter. Flowers of this plant usually bloss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus Sect
''Prunus'' is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs from the family Rosaceae. The genus includes plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots and almonds (collectively stonefruit). The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, being native to the temperate regions of North America, the neotropics of South America, and temperate and tropical regions of Eurasia and Africa, There are about 340 accepted species . Many members of the genus are widely cultivated for their sweet, fleshy fruit and for decorative purposes of their flowers. ''Prunus'' fruit are drupes, or stone fruits. The fleshy mesocarp surrounding the endocarp is edible while the endocarp itself forms a hard, inedible shell called the pyrena ("stone" or "pit"). This shell encloses the seed (or "kernel"), which is edible in some species (such as sweet almonds), but poisonous in many others (such as apricot kernels). Besides being eaten off the hand, most ''Prunus'' fruit are also commonly used in processing, such as jam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus Umbellata
''Prunus umbellata'', called flatwoods plum, hog plum and sloe plum, is a plum species native to the United States from Virginia, south to Florida, and west to Texas Texas ( , ; or ) is the most populous U.S. state, state in the South Central United States, South Central region of the United States. It borders Louisiana to the east, Arkansas to the northeast, Oklahoma to the north, New Mexico to the we .... ''Prunus umbellata'' can reach in height with a spread. It has alternate serrate green leaves that turn yellow in autumn. Flowers are white, creamy, or grayish. Fruits are round, purple, and in diameter. The trees bloom and bear fruit later than other plums. The fruits mature August–October. Large crops appear only every 3–4 years. ''P. umbellata'' trees can live up to 40 years and are very difficult to distinguish from '' P. angustifolia'', with which it hybridizes easily. The fruits are made into jellies and jams. Gallery File:Prunus umbella ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus Texana
''Prunus texana'', called peachbush, Texas almond cherry, Texas peachbush, sand plum, peach bush, duraznillo and wild peach is native to central and western Texas. Although it looks like peach, it actually belongs to ''Prunus'' sect. ''Prunocerasus'' together with other North American plum species. Description ''P. texana'' is a bushy shrub about tall and wide. The branches have short hairs. The flowers are white or pink. Blossoms appear in February and March and are . The fruits are egg-shaped and yellow or greenish yellow. The leaves A leaf (: leaves) is a principal appendage of the stem of a vascular plant, usually borne laterally above ground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", while the leaves, stem, ... are slender and elliptical with small teeth. The species readily hybridizes with native and cultivated plums. Cultivars include 'Bolen', 'Gephart', 'Johnson', and 'Stuart'. References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benth
George Bentham (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884) was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century". Born into a distinguished family, he initially studied law, but had a fascination with botany from an early age, which he soon pursued, becoming president of the Linnaean Society in 1861, and a fellow of the Royal Society in 1862. He was the author of a number of important botanical works, particularly flora. He is best known for his taxonomic classification of plants in collaboration with Joseph Dalton Hooker, his ''Genera Plantarum'' (1862–1883). He died in London in 1884. Life Bentham was born in Stoke, Plymouth, on 22 September 1800. His father, Sir Samuel Bentham, a naval architect, was the only brother of Jeremy Bentham to survive into adulthood. His mother, Mary Sophia Bentham, was a botanist and author. Bentham had no formal education but had a remarkable linguistic aptitude. By ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus Subcordata
''Prunus subcordata'', known by the common names Klamath plum, Oregon plum, Pacific plum and Sierra plum, is a member of the genus ''Prunus'', native to the western United States, especially California and Oregon. Description ''Prunus subcordata'' is an erect deciduous shrub or small tree growing to in height with a trunk diameter of up to . It sprouts from its roots and can form dense, spiny thickets. The bark is gray with horizontal brown lenticels, similar in appearance to that of the cultivated cherry tree. The leaves are long with a petiole, dark green, turning red before falling, and faintly toothed. The flowers are white or pinkish, 2 cm across, appearing in the spring in clusters of one to seven together. The fruit is a small, plum-like drupe, variable in appearance, in length, and may be red or yellow; they mature in late summer. The plums are small and tart. File:Prunus subcordata 2.jpg, Leaves and flowers File:Prunus subcordata 1.jpg, Thicket File:Prunus subcord ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus × Slavinii
''Prunus'' is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs from the family Rosaceae. The genus includes plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots and almonds (collectively stonefruit). The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, being native to the temperate regions of North America, the neotropics of South America, and temperate and tropical regions of Eurasia and Africa, There are about 340 accepted species . Many members of the genus are widely cultivated for their sweet, fleshy fruit and for decorative purposes of their flowers. ''Prunus'' fruit are drupes, or stone fruits. The fleshy mesocarp surrounding the endocarp is edible while the endocarp itself forms a hard, inedible shell called the pyrena ("stone" or "pit"). This shell encloses the seed (or "kernel"), which is edible in some species (such as sweet almonds), but poisonous in many others (such as apricot kernels). Besides being eaten off the hand, most ''Prunus'' fruit are also commonly used in processing, such as jam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus Rivularis
''Prunus rivularis'', known variously by the common names creek plum, hog plum, or wild-goose plum is a thicket-forming shrub. It prefers calcareous clay soil or limestone-based woodland soils. This deciduous plant belongs to the rose family, Rosaceae, and is found mainly in the central United States. It is a shrub consisting of slender stems with umbel clusters of white blossoms. The fruit is a drupe that resembles a large berry; though it has a bitter taste, it serves as a source of food for birds and other wildlife. ''"Prunus"'' is Latin for plum, whereas ''"rivularis"'' means being near a stream. Description The leaves are simple and alternately arranged along the stems. The general shape of the leaf ranges between elliptic and ovate and is gauged out to be long and wide. The base shape of the leaf is considered cuneate while the apex is acuminate. The margin or edges is described as serrate; usually with 10–11 teeth per centimeter. Flowers of this plant usually bl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus × Palmeri
''Prunus'' is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs from the family Rosaceae. The genus includes plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots and almonds (collectively stonefruit). The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, being native to the temperate regions of North America, the neotropics of South America, and temperate and tropical regions of Eurasia and Africa, There are about 340 accepted species . Many members of the genus are widely cultivated for their sweet, fleshy fruit and for decorative purposes of their flowers. ''Prunus'' fruit are drupes, or stone fruits. The fleshy mesocarp surrounding the endocarp is edible while the endocarp itself forms a hard, inedible shell called the pyrena ("stone" or "pit"). This shell encloses the seed (or "kernel"), which is edible in some species (such as sweet almonds), but poisonous in many others (such as apricot kernels). Besides being eaten off the hand, most ''Prunus'' fruit are also commonly used in processing, such as jam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus × Orthosepala
''Prunus'' × ''orthosepala'' is a nothospecies of shrubby plum native to North America, in the southern and central United States. It is a naturally occurring hybrid of Chickasaw plum, '' Prunus angustifolia'', and American plum, ''Prunus americana ''Prunus americana'', commonly called the American plum, wild plum, or Marshall's large yellow sweet plum, is a species of ''Prunus'' native to North America from Saskatchewan and Idaho south to New Mexico and east to Québec, Maine and Florida. ...'', found where their ranges overlap. References External links * orthosepala Hybrid prunus Flora of the United States orthosepala Plants described in 1893 Plant nothospecies {{prunus-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Aiton
William Aiton (17312 February 1793) was a Scotland, Scottish botanist. Aiton was born near Hamilton, Scotland, Hamilton. Having been regularly trained to the profession of a gardener, he travelled to London in 1754, and became assistant to Philip Miller, then superintendent of the Chelsea Physic Garden. In 1759 he was appointed director of the newly established Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, botanical garden at Kew, where he remained until his death. He effected many improvements at the gardens, and in 1789 he published ''Hortus Kewensis'', a catalogue of the plants cultivated there. He is buried at nearby St. Anne's Church, Kew. A second and enlarged edition of the ''Hortus'' was brought out in 1810–1813 by his eldest son, William Townsend Aiton. Aiton is commemorated in the Specific epithet (botany), specific epithet ''aitonis''. In 1789, he classified the Sampaguita plant to the ''Jasmine, Jasminium'' genus and also named it as ''Arabian Jasmine'' because it was believed th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
