Prunus maximowiczii
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P. maximowiczii
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Prunus maximowiczii, known as the Korean cherry[3] or Miyama cherry,[4]is a small (about 7.5 m), fruiting cherry tree that can be found growing wild in northeastern Asia and Eurasia.
Taxonomy
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.[1][2]
Description
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.[5]
Range and habitat
Korea, China (Heilong Jiang, Jilin, Liaoning, and Zhejiang), Russia (Khabarovsk, Primorye, and Sakhalin), and Japan (Hokkaido, Honshu, and Kyushu),[1] often in mountainous, woodland regions and in clayey soil.
Uses
P. maximowiczii is useful in many ways; aside from eating the fruit, the flowers can be used as a condiment, preserved in brine.[5]
The wood of P. maximowiczii is very hard, heavy, and close grained, making it excellent for carving and the making of furniture.[5]
Dyes produced from the leaves of P. maximowiczii are green; and those from the fruit, a dark grey to green.[5]
Chemically, amygdalin and prunasin, the derivatives of which produce prussic acid[5] as well as Genistein[6] can be extracted from P. maximowiczii.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Prunus maximowiczii was originally described and published in Bull. Cl. Phys.-Math. Acad. Imp. Sci. Saint-Petersbourg 15:131. 1857 ("1856"). Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Species was first published under the name Cerasus maximowiczii in V. L. Komarov & E. N. Klobukova-Alisova, Key pl. Far East. USSR 2:657. 1932. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
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- ↑ Plants for a Future [1]
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External links
- More images and information at Prunus maximowiczii at Cirrus Digital
