Prunus maximowiczii
| Prunus maximowiczii | |
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| Prunus maximowiczii, Morton Arboretum, Lisle, Illinois | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rosaceae |
| Genus: | Prunus |
| Subgenus: | Cerasus |
| Species: | P. maximowiczii |
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Prunus maximowiczii Rupr. |
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| Synonyms | |
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Cerasus maximowiczii (Rupr.) Kom. |
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Cerasus maximowiczii (Rupr.) Kom.
Prunus maximowiczii, known as Korean cherry,Korean mountain cherry, or Miyama cherry,is a small (about 7.5 m), fruiting cherry tree that can be found growing wild in northeastern Asia and Eurasia.
The species was first described in 1857 by Franz Josef Ruprecht. It was treated in the genus Cerasus (now generally accepted as a subgenus of Prunus) by Vladimir Leontyevich Komarov in 1927, but the original P. maximowiczii remains the widely accepted binomial.
P. maximowiczii has white, insect-pollinated, hermaphroditic flowers, blooming in May. The edible fruits (cherries) are about 5 mm in diameter, containing one large seed each. They ripen in August.
Korea, China (Heilong Jiang, Jilin, Liaoning, and Zhejiang), Russia (Khabarovsk, Primorye, and Sakhalin), and Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, and Kyushu), often in mountainous, woodland regions and in clayey soil.
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