Prunus avium

Prunus avium, commonly cried gean, is a species o cherry, a flouerin plant in the rose faimily Rosaceae. It is native tae Europe, Anatolie, Maghreb, an wastren Asie, frae the Breetish Isles^[2] sooth tae Morocco an Tunisie, north tae the Trondheimsfjord region in Norawa an east tae the Caucasus an northren Iran, wi a smaw isolatit population in the wastren Himalaya.^[3] The species is widely cultivatit in ither regions an haes acome naituralised in North Americae an Australie.^[4][5][6]

Prunus avium
Gean foliage an fruit
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Rosales
Faimily:	Rosaceae
Genus:	Prunus
Subgenus:	Cerasus
Species:	P. avium
Binomial name
Prunus avium L. 1755 nae Franch. 1890
Distribution map
Synonyms[1]
Leet Prunus cerasus var. avium L. 1753 Cerasus avium (L.) Moench Druparia avium (L.) Clairv.