Prunus cornuta

Prunus cornuta, the Himalayan bird cherry, is a species of bird cherry native to the foothills of the Himalayas, including China and the countries of the Indian subcontinent. A medium-sized tree, it can reach 18 m. It is used for a rootstock for sweet cherries in India.^[1] Its specific epithet references the "horned" deformation of the fruit seen when a tree is afflicted with the fungal disease pocket plum gall, ascribed to the species Taphrina padi.^{[citation needed][2]}

Prunus cornuta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Rosales
Family:	Rosaceae
Genus:	Prunus
Subgenus:	Prunus subg. Padus
Species:	P. cornuta
Binomial name
Prunus cornuta (Wall. ex Royle) Steud.
Synonyms
Cerasus cornuta Wall. ex Royle Padus cornuta (Wall. ex Royle) Carr. Prunus glauciphylla S.C. Ghora & G. Panigrahi Prunus pachyclada Zabel Prunus racemosa Lam. Prunus wattii S.C. Ghora & G. Panigrahi