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(First upload on July 24 2019. Last on March 16 2023) [ 日本語 | English ]

Prunus salicina Lindl.






Mount Usu / Sarobetsu post-mined peatland
From left: Crater basin in 1986 and 2006. Cottongrass / Daylily

Prunus L. (サクラ)
Sumomo (スモモ, 李/酢桃), Japanese plum or Asian plum
Lifeform: short, deciduous tree ≈ 10 m tall
Distribution: originally in China (imported to Japan in Nara Era)
Seed dispersal: animal
Use: edible
Synonyms (USDA)

Prunus triflora Roxb.

var. pubipes (Koehne) L. H. Bailey (ケスモモ)
var. mandshurica (Skvortsov) Skvortsov et A. I. Baranov (no Japanese name)
Cultivars: many
李 (スモモ)
Two types of cultivars originating from Europe and China
P. americana Marshall (アメリカスモモ)
P. cerasifera Ehrh. (ミロバランスモモ)
P. domestica L. (セイヨウスモモ)
P. salicina Lindl. (スモモ)
P. ussuriensis Kovalev et Kostina (マンシュウスモモ)
索引

Prunus salicina in Hokkaido


ST1 ST2 ST3
ST4 ST5
ST6 ST7
[1-3] in the Arboretum of Shibecha Kyoto University Experimental Forest, on June 27 2019. [4/5] at the former Toya Lake Kindergarten on September 21 2021. [6/7] in West Tomioka Park (富丘西公園), Teine Waard, Sapporo, on May 21 2022. (Bark, 樹皮)

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