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Prunus cerasifera, Bas-Rhin, Alsace, France (c) Daniel Cahen, some rights reserved (CC BY) · observed growing wild · 2022-03-08

Prunus cerasifera Ehrh.

Bombawka, Cherry Plum, Cherry plum (EN), Cherry-plum

No habitat climate 50 photographs Temperate garden plant
Add one to my plants Sow seed

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Summary

Prunus cerasifera is a species of plum known by the common names cherry plum and myrobalan plum. Native to Eurasia and naturalized elsewhere, P. cerasifera is believed to be one of the parents of the cultivated plum.

Text from Wikipedia, “Prunus cerasifera”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written. Kept separate from everything derived here.

About the genus · Prunus

Prunus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs from the rose family (Rosaceae) that produce stone fruits, or drupes. As of March 2024, the genus has about 340 accepted species, including almonds, apricots, cherries, peaches, and plums. It 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.

Text from Wikipedia, “Prunus”, CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted as written.

Family
Rosaceae
Described by
Ehrh.
Native to
Albania, Bulgaria, Greece +23
Wild records
3 in range· 1 open

Also known as Armeniaca sogdiana Kudr.; Cerasus myrobalanos; Padus racemosa subsp. racemosa; Prunus alpestris Schischk.; Prunus caspica Kovalev & Ekimov and 45 more.

Cultivation

Grouped as a temperate garden plant by the genus Prunus, which is reliably one kind of plant (archetype table). The table holds no figure for this group, which spans too much for one minimum, and no habitat climate is derived yet; no cold floor is given, and no prose comes from the table.

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species, and the archetype table has no figure for its genus or family.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record; three are needed for an envelope.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.
NativeAlbania, Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey-in-Europe, Yugoslavia, Krym, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kirgizistan, Turkmenistan, Tadzhikistan, Uzbekistan, North Caucasus, Transcaucasus, Afghanistan, East Aegean Is., Iran, Iraq, Lebanon-Syria, Turkey, Xinjiang, East Himalaya, Nepal, Pakistan, West Himalaya· introduced: Denmark, Great Britain, Ireland, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Netherlands, Poland, Switzerland, France, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Baltic States, Central European Russia, East European Russia, Morocco, New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, British Columbia, Ontario, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, California, Maryland, Argentina South
Kew's description“tree” · “temperate”· quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 3 georeferenced records inside the native range; the map shows only the 1 openly licensed one, which alone would put the marker in the same place. 681 records outside the range (gardens, roadsides, misidentifications) ignored. Under a dozen records: treat the map as indicative. No climate envelope is derived for this species. 1 in-range record is placed to worse than 10 km and stays on the map but off the climate.

Photographs

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Photographs: (c) Daniel Cahen, some rights reserved (CC BY) (3); (c) Kudaibergen Amirekul, some rights reserved (CC BY-SA) (2); no rights reserved · CC0; (c) John McTague, some rights reserved (CC BY) (2).

Photographs: iNaturalist and GBIF media did not answer when this page was built; what is shown came from the sources that did.

Papers naming this species

Works whose title or abstract names Prunus cerasifera, most cited first, from OpenAlex (CC0). A mention, not a cultivation source: nothing on this page is drawn from them.

Comparative mapping and marker-assisted selection in Rosaceae fruit crops
Elisabeth Dirlewanger, Enrique Graziano, Tarek Joobeur, F. Garriga-Calderé (2004) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Arbuscular mycorrhizal induced changes to plant growth and root system morphology in Prunus cerasifera
G. Berta, A. Trotta, Anna Fusconi, J. E. Hooker (1995) · Tree Physiology
Copper toxicity in Prunus cerasifera: growth and antioxidant enzymes responses of in vitro grown plants
Lara Lombardi, Luca Sebastiani (2004) · Plant Science
The occurrence of anastomosis formation and nuclear exchange in intact arbuscular mycorrhizal networks
Manuela Giovannetti, Paola Fortuna, Anna Silvia Citernesi, Stefano Morini (2001) · New Phytologist
Phytosynthetic Ag doped ZnO nanoparticles: Semiconducting green remediators
Khuram Shahzad Ahmad, Shaan Bibi Jaffri (2018) · Open Chemistry
Changes in Heavy Metal Accumulation Depending on Traffic Density in Some Landscape Plants
Aydın Türkyilmaz, Hakan Şevik, Mehmet Çetin, Elnaji A. Ahmaida Saleh (2018) · Polish Journal of Environmental Studies
The Ma Gene for Complete-Spectrum Resistance to Meloidogyne Species in Prunus Is a TNL with a Huge Repeated C-Terminal Post-LRR Region
Michel Claverie, Elisabeth Dirlewanger, Nathalie Bosselut, Cyril Van Ghelder (2011) · PLANT PHYSIOLOGY
Augmented photocatalytic, antibacterial and antifungal activity of prunosynthetic silver nanoparticles
Shaan Bibi Jaffri, Khuram Shahzad Ahmad (2017) · Artificial Cells Nanomedicine and Biotechnology
Synthesis and characterization of porous tree gum grafted copolymer derived from Prunus cerasifera gum polysaccharide
Zhengjun Shi, Chengxinzhuo Jia, Dawei Wang, Jia Deng (2019) · International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
Enhanced micropropagation response and biocontrol effect of Azospirillum brasilense Sp245 on Prunus cerasifera L. clone Mr.S 2/5 plants
A. Russo, L. PECORI VETTORI, C. Felici, Grazia Fiaschi (2008) · Journal of Biotechnology
Graft establishment between compatible and incompatiblePrunusspp
P. Errea, A. J. Felipe, M. Herrero (1994) · Journal of Experimental Botany
Facile synthesis of fluorescent carbon dots from Prunus cerasifera fruits for fluorescent ink, Fe3+ ion detection and cell imaging
Huipeng Ma, Cuicui Sun, Gerilehu Xue, Guanlin Wu (2019) · Spectrochimica Acta Part A Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy

Other Prunus 29 in the reference

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