Bird cherry is a common name for the Eurasian plant ''
Prunus padus
''Prunus padus'', known as bird cherry, hackberry (unrelated to the genus ''Celtis''), hagberry, or Mayday tree, is a flowering plant in the Rosaceae, rose family. It is a species of cherry, a deciduous small tree or large shrub up to tall. It ...
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Bird cherry may also refer to:
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''Prunus'' subg. ''Padus'', a group of species closely related to ''Prunus padus''
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Prunus avium
''Prunus avium'', commonly called wild cherry, sweet cherry or gean is a species of Prunus subg. Cerasus, cherry, a flowering plant in the rose family, Rosaceae. It is native to Eurasia and naturalized elsewhere. It is an ancestor of ''Prunus c ...
'', the cultivated cherry, with the Latin epithet "avium" meaning "bird"
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Prunus pensylvanica
''Prunus pensylvanica'', also known as bird cherry, fire cherry, pin cherry, and red cherry, is a North American cherry species in the genus ''Prunus''.
Description
''Prunus pensylvanica'' grows as a shrub or small tree, usually with a straig ...
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