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Prunus Sect. Prunus
''Prunus'' sect. ''Prunus'' is a section of Prunus subg. Prunus, ''Prunus'' subg. ''Prunus''. It contains species of Eurasian plum. Species Species in this section includes: * ''Prunus bokhariensis'' * ''Prunus cerasifera'' – cherry plum * ''Prunus cocomilia'' – Italian plum, cuckoo's apple * ''Prunus consociiflora'' – Hubei plum * ''Prunus darvasica'' – Darwaz plum * ''Prunus divaricata'' – wild cherry plum * ''Prunus domestica'' – European plum * ''Prunus ramburii'' – sloe of Sierra Nevada (Spain), Sierra Nevada () * ''Prunus salicina'' – Chinese plum, Japanese plum * ''Prunus simonii'' – apricot plum * ''Prunus sogdiana'' – Sogdian plum * ''Prunus spinosa'' – sloe * ''Prunus tadzhikistanica'' – Tajik plum * ''Prunus ursina'' – bear's plum * ''Prunus ussuriensis'' – Manchurian plum * ''Prunus vachuschtii'' – alucha Hybrid species (some of them are hybrids with species of other sections): * Prunus × blireiana, ''Prunus'' × ''blireiana'' – dou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Species
A species () is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate sexes or mating types can produce fertile offspring, typically by sexual reproduction. It is the basic unit of Taxonomy (biology), classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. Other ways of defining species include their karyotype, DNA sequence, morphology (biology), morphology, behaviour, or ecological niche. In addition, palaeontologists use the concept of the chronospecies since fossil reproduction cannot be examined. The most recent rigorous estimate for the total number of species of eukaryotes is between 8 and 8.7 million. About 14% of these had been described by 2011. All species (except viruses) are given a binomial nomenclature, two-part name, a "binomen". The first part of a binomen is the name of a genus to which the species belongs. The second part is called the specific name (zoology), specific name or the specific ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus Ursina
''Prunus ursina'' (bear's plum, ) is a species of ''prunus'' native to the woods of Western Asia from Turkey to Syria, Israel and Lebanon. Some sources include this species in '' Prunus cocomilia''. Etymology ''Prunus'', from the Latin "prūnus" which is a loan from Greek (προῦνον, prounon) means plum tree. ''Ursina'' derives from "ursus", a bear, referring to one of a bear's favorite foods. Description ''Prunus ursina'' is a deciduous shrub to a small tree, reaching 4 to 8 meters in height; it is highly branched and the branches sometimes bear spines. The twigs are velvety and the leaves are ovate to oblong. ''Prunus ursina'' produces white hermaphrodite flowers in pairs during the spring. Its 2-to-3 cm unpalatable fruit is globose and turns yellow to dark orange when ripe but may be toxic if consumed excessively. Uses The fruit can be used to obtain a dark grey to green dye and a green dye can be obtained from the leaves. Plants in the ''Prunus'' species contain ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus × Rossica
''Prunus'' × ''rossica'', the Russian plum, is a hybrid cultigen between cherry plum (''Prunus cerasifera'') and Chinese or Japanese plum (''Prunus salicina''). It is of commercial importance in the European Russia European Russia is the western and most populated part of the Russia, Russian Federation. It is geographically situated in Europe, as opposed to the country's sparsely populated and vastly larger eastern part, Siberia, which is situated in Asia ..., and there are many cultivars developed there, such as 'Gek', 'Desertnaya', 'Kubanskaya Kometa', 'Obilnaja'. In the US, a few cultivars have also been developed, such as Sprite Cherry-Plum and Delight Cherry-Plum. The South African cultivar 'Methley' is also a cultivar of ''P.'' × ''rossica''. References x rossica Hybrid plants Plum cultigens {{prunus-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus × Macedonica
''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 × Fruticans
''Prunus'' × ''fruticans'' (or ''Prunus fruticans'') is a shrubby dark-fruiting ''Prunus'' of hybrid origin allied to blackthorn, bullace and damsons. Examples frequently reach about in height, although large tree-like forms are known. Morphological, habitat and genetic data indicate that most or all examples of fruticans represents hybrids of blackthorn ''Prunus spinosa'', and ''Prunus domestica'' var. ''insititia'' be it in its black bullace (var. nigra) or damson (var. damascene) forms. ''Prunus x fruticans'' is found mainly in Europe where these species ranges overlap. Analysis of some forms reveals it to be a tetraploid despite suspected parentage involving tetraploid and hexaploid species otherwise expected to produce at least some pentaploid offspring. However, earlier research that examined different morphologies in different geographical areas across Europe have identified self-fertile forms, which in the context of additional research suggests that some are pentaploid ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus × Foveata
''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 Ulmifolia
''Prunus ulmifolia'' is species of ''Prunus'' native to Central Asia. It is often treated as a synonym of the East Asian species '' P. triloba'' . However, they are distinctly different in leaves, flowers and fruits. ''P. triloba'' have slightly trilobed leaves, campanulate calyx tubes, unpitted stone In geology, rock (or stone) is any naturally occurring solid mass or aggregate of minerals or mineraloid matter. It is categorized by the minerals included, its Chemical compound, chemical composition, and the way in which it is formed. Rocks ...s, and fruits splitting when ripe, whereas ''P. ulmifolia'' have leaves without lobes, cylindrical calyx tubes, stones finely pitted with irregularly branching furrows, and fruits not splitting. References External links Flowers in Botanická zahrada a arboretum Mendelovy univerzity v Brně [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fergana Range
The Fergana Range (; ) is a mountain range of the Tian Shan in the Kyrgyz Republic. The length of the range is 206 km, and the average height is 3,600 m above sea level. The highest mountain is 4,893 m above sea level. Geography The Fergana Range stretches from north-west to south-east, separating the Fergana Valley and the inner Tian Shan. The south-east section of the range is higher. It joins the Torugart Ridge and the Alaykuu Ridge via the Söök Pass (Naryn Region), Söök Pass (4024 m). The South-west slope is long and low-sloped, the north-east - short and steep. Mountain ranges southwest are denoted by collective term: Pamir-Alay system. Geology The Fergana Range is composed of schist, sandstone, limestone, and other sedimentary metamorphic formations ruptured by intrusions of gabbro and diabase. References Mountain ranges of Kyrgyzstan Naryn Region Osh Region Jalal-Abad Region Mountain ranges of the Tian Shan {{kyrgyzstan-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus × Ferganica
''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 Pumila
''Prunus pumila'', commonly called sand cherry, is a North American species of cherry in the rose family. It is widespread in eastern and central Canada from New Brunswick west to Saskatchewan and the northern United States from Maine to Montana, south as far as Colorado, Kansas, Indiana, and Virginia, with a few isolated populations in Tennessee and Utah. It grows in sandy locations such as shorelines and dunes. ''Prunus pumila'' is a deciduous shrub that grows to tall depending on the variety. It forms dense clonal colonies by sprouts from the root system. The leaves are leathery, long, with a serrated margin. The flowers are in diameter with five white petals and 25–30 stamens. They are produced in small clusters of two to four. The fruit is a small cherry in diameter, ripening to dark purple in early summer.Huxley, A., ed. (1992). ''New RHS Dictionary of Gardening''. Macmillan . ;Varieties * ''Prunus pumila'' var. ''besseyi'' (Bailey) Gleason, western sand cherry (also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus × Cistena
''Prunus'' × ''cistena'', the purple leaf sand cherry or dwarf red-leaf plum, is a hybrid species of ''Prunus'', the result of a cross between ''Prunus cerasifera'' (cherry plum or myrobalan plum) and ''Prunus pumila'' (sand cherry). A leggy bush or shrubby tree, it typically reaches a height of and has a useful life of 10–20 years. The fruits are edible, if strong-tasting. Some people make jams or preserves from them. It is not advisable to eat the pits. Frost-tolerant, purple leaf sand cherries can be grown up to USDA Hardiness Zone, USDA Hardiness Zone 2a. Commercial specimens are typically grafted to a rootstock from any of a number of other species, which will influence their growth form and final height. There are also a limited selection of cultivars available. ''Prunus'' × ''cistena'' was developed by Niels Ebbesen Hansen in 1910. In 1993 List of Award of Garden Merit flowering cherries, it won the Royal Horticultural Society's Award of Garden Merit. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prunus Mume
''Prunus mume'', the Chinese plum or Japanese apricot, is a tree species in the family Rosaceae. Along with bamboo, the plant is intimately associated with art, literature, and everyday life in China, from where it was then introduced to Korea, Vietnam, and Japan. ''Prunus mume'' is also referred to by its flowers, as a plum blossom or flowering plum. Although referred to as a ''plum'' in English, is classified in the ''Armeniaca'' section of the genus ''Prunus'' making it an apricot. ''Mei'' flowers, or ''meihua'' (), which bloom in the late winter and early spring, notably during the spring festival (春節), symbolize endurance, as they are the first to bloom despite the cold; the flower is one of the Three Friends of Winter. In East Asian cuisine ( Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese cuisine), the fruit, known as ''meizi'' ( 梅子) in Chinese, is used in juices and sauces; as a flavoring for alcohol; and may be pickled or dried. It is also used in tradition ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
