Cherry tree grafting - Prunus Serotina Virginiana
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prunus serotina OR prunus virginiana??? UGH
Comments (10)Looks like a chokecherry to me. The other one that looks like it is P. padus. P. pensylvanica bears oblong-lanceolate leaves and produces flowers in subumbellate clusters. Bailey (1949, Manual of Cultivated Plants - Revised Edition) separates out the three PADUS, Racemose cherries this way: D. Sepals persistent at base of fr.: large trees with fls. appearing late, and with hard-glossy lvs...38. P. serotina DD. Sepals deciduous: small trees or bushes with very early fls. and soft not hard-glossy lvs. E. Hypanthium pubescent within: fls. in wide-spreading or drooping racemes: petals twice as long as stamens...39. P. Padus EE. Hypanthium glabrous within: fls. in upright or ascending racemes (at first); petals scarcely exceeding stamens...40. P. virginiana...See MoreAre these weeds Prunus serotina black cherry
Comments (3)Ha - what a picture! Yes, I agree they are Prunus serotina seedlings. Good looking ones too....See MoreFlowering Cherry Trees and Fruiting Cherry Trees Explained
Comments (21)"subgenus" may be more appropriate (or maybe not, taxonomists have put both sweet and sour cherries into the subgenus Cerasus). All these different cherry species are very closely related, if one wants to consider them different species. This is one example where the line separating different species is not a clear one. It could even be possible to consider the different cherry families as subspecies. After all, if they can freely interbreed and hybridize with each other, can they not be considered members within the same species? (by this definition we could divide all cherries into only 2 groups: those with 16 chromosomes and those with 32) Or one could attempt to divide cherries into different families: Sweet cherries (P. avium), sour cherries, Black cherries plus Capulin native to the American continent (put into same group), and Asian flowering cherries. Perhaps better classification could be provided if taxonomists utilized multiple degrees of species relatedness/separation, because it is ambiguous whether some of the different cherries should be classified as entirely separate species or subspecies within a singular species, neither of which would be wholly accurate....See MoreIs this a prunus serotina?
Comments (15)From Ladybird Johnson Wildflower site , Prunus serotina https://www.wildflower.org/plants/result.php?id_plant=prse2 Aromatic tree; crushed foliage and bark have distinctive cherry-like odor and bitter taste, owing to the same cyanide-forming toxic compounds, such as amygdalin, found in the wood and leaves of some other woody members of the Rosaceae. Fall foliage is yellow....See Moresnider1946
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