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Prunus subg. Cerasus

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Prunus subg. Cerasus
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Prunus subg. Cerasus is a subgenus of Prunus, commonly known as the true cherries. Species of the subgenus have a single winter bud per axil.[1][note 1] The flowers are usually in small corymbs or umbels of several together (occasionally solitary, e.g. P. serrula), but some species have short racemes (e.g. P. maacki). The fruit is a drupe and has no obvious groove along the side.[1] The subgenus is native to the temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, with two species in North America (P. emarginata and P. pensylvanica), four in Europe (P. avium, P. cerasus, P. fruticosa and P. mahaleb), two in North Africa (P. avium and P. mahaleb), and the remainder in Asia.

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The fresh fruits of sweet cherry (worldwide) and Chinese cherry (in China) are consumed raw. The fruits of some species such as sour cherry are used to make desserts, sauce, jam and wine. The seeds of mahaleb cherry are used to make mahleb. Many species are cultivated as an ornamental tree, known as cherry blossoms.

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Species

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Species of Prunus subg. Cerasus are known as true cherries,[2] which include:

Nothospecies in this subgenus include:

  • Prunus × chichibuensis H.Kubota & Moriya – Chichibu cherry
  • Prunus × compta (Koidz.) Tatew.
  • Prunus × dawyckensis Sealy
  • Prunus × eminens Beck
  • Prunus × fontanesiana (Spach) C.K.Schneid.
  • Prunus × furuseana Ohwi
  • Prunus × gondouinii (Poit. & Turpin) Rehder
  • Prunus × hisauchiana Koidz. ex Hisauti
  • Prunus × incam Ingram ex R.T.Olsen & Whittem.
  • Prunus × javorkae Kárpáti
  • Prunus × juddii E.S.Anderson
  • Prunus × kanzakura Makino
  • Prunus × kubotana Kawas.
  • Prunus × lannesiana (Carrière) E.H.Wilson
  • Prunus × mitsuminensis Moriya
  • Prunus × miyasakana H.Kubota
  • Prunus × mohacsyana Kárpáti
  • Prunus × nudiflora (Koehne) Koidz.
  • Prunus × oneyamensis Hayashi
  • Prunus × parvifolia (Matsum.) Koehne – small-leaved cherry
  • Prunus × pugetensis Jacobson & Zika – Puget Sound cherry
  • Prunus × sacra Miyoshi
  • Prunus × schmittii Rehder
  • Prunus × sieboldii (Carrière) Wittm.
  • Prunus × stacei Wójcicki
  • Prunus × subhirtella Miq. – Higan cherry or spring cherry
  • Prunus × syodoi Nakai
  • Prunus × tschonoskii Koehne
  • Prunus × yedoensis Matsum. – Yoshino cherry or Tokyo cherry
  • Prunus × yuyamae Sugim.

Many Prunus species are called "cherries" but not included in this subgenus. They are not considered true cherries.[2] Examples are:

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Notes

  1. The species originally included in this subgenus with three axillary winter buds have been moved into the subgenus Prunus.[2]

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