Prunus: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Phylum
- Tracheophyta
- Class
- Magnoliopsida
- Order
- Rosales
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Genus
- Prunus
- Species
- Scientific Name
- Prunus
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Prunus
Prunus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs from the family Rosaceae. The genus includes plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots and almonds (collectively stonefruit). The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, being native to the temperate regions of North America, the neotropics of South America, and temperate and tropical regions of Eurasia and Africa, There are about 340 accepted species as of March 2024.
Many members of the genus are widely cultivated for their sweet, fleshy fruit and for decorative purposes of their flowers. Prunus fruit are drupes, or stone fruits. The fleshy mesocarp surrounding the endocarp is edible while the endocarp itself forms a hard, inedible shell called the pyrena ("stone" or "pit"). This shell encloses the seed (or "kernel"), which is edible in some species (such as sweet almonds), but poisonous in many others (such as apricot kernels). Besides being eaten off the hand, most Prunus fruit are also commonly used in processing, such as jam production, canning, drying, and the seeds for roasting.
...Prunus in languages:
- Afrikaans
- Kersies & Pruime
- Bokmål
- kirsebærslekta
- Catalan
- Pruneres i ametllers
- Chinese
- 梅屬
- Chinese
- 櫻屬
- Chinese
- 李屬
- Czech
- slivoň
- Danish
- Blomme
- Dutch
- Pruimen, kersen en verwanten
- English
- plums, cherries, and allies
- English
- cherry trees
- Estonian
- toompuud
- Finnish
- tuomet
- Hebrew
- שזיף
- Hebrew
- פרונוס
- Italian
- Pruni
- Japanese
- スモモ属
- Korean
- 벚나무속
- Korean
- 벚꽃나무속
- Korean
- 겹벚꽃나무속
- Lithuanian
- Slyva
- Modern Greek
- Προύνος
- Polish
- Śliwa
- Portuguese
- Cerejeiras, Ameixeiras e afins
- Russian
- Слива
- Russian
- Прунус
- Slovak
- slivka
- Swedish
- prunusar
- Swedish
- plommonsläktet
- Thai
- สกุล พรุน
- Turkish
- şeftali
- Ukrainian
- Слива
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
Child Taxa
- Cerasus
- Padus
- Prunus
- Prunus accumulans
- Prunus africana
- Prunus aitchisonii
- Prunus albicaulis
- Prunus amplifolia
- Prunus andersonii
- Prunus annularis
- Prunus antioquensis
- Prunus arborea
- Prunus argentea
- Prunus axitliana
- Prunus balansae
- Prunus barbata
- Prunus blireana
- Prunus brachystachya
- Prunus bracteopadus
- Prunus brahuica
- Prunus brasiliensis
- Prunus brittoniana
- Prunus buxifolia
- Prunus carduchorum
- Prunus carmesina
- Prunus caroliniana
- Prunus ceylanica
- Prunus chamissoana
- Prunus chiapensis
- Prunus choreiana
- Prunus cistena
- Prunus clarofolia
- Prunus clementis
- Prunus communis
- Prunus cortapico
- Prunus crassifolia
- Prunus cyclamina
- Prunus debilis
- Prunus dictyoneura
- Prunus dielsiana
- Prunus discolor
- Prunus eburnea
- Prunus erythroxylon
- Prunus espinozana
- Prunus falcata
- Prunus ferruginea
- Prunus fordiana
- Prunus fremontii
- Prunus fujianensis
- Prunus gentryi
- Prunus glauca
- Prunus gongshanensis
- Prunus grisea
- Prunus guanaiensis
- Prunus guatemalensis
- Prunus hainanensis
- Prunus harae
- Prunus haussknechtii
- Prunus herthae
- Prunus himalaica
- Prunus huantensis
- Prunus hypoleuca
- Prunus hypoxantha
- Prunus ilicifolia
- Prunus incisoserrata
- Prunus integrifolia
- Prunus ishidoyana
- Prunus javanica
- Prunus keredjensis
- Prunus kinabaluensis
- Prunus klokovii
- Prunus korschinskii
- Prunus korshinskyi
- Prunus kotschyi
- Prunus kuramica
- Prunus kurilensis
- Prunus laurocerasus
- Prunus laxinervis
- Prunus ledebouriana
- Prunus leiocarpa
- Prunus lichoana
- Prunus ligustrina
- Prunus limeixing
- Prunus littlei
- Prunus lundelliana
- Prunus lusitanica
- Prunus lycioides
- Prunus malayana
- Prunus marsupialis
- Prunus matudae
- Prunus megacarpa
- Prunus mexicana
- Prunus mirabilis
- Prunus moritziana
- Prunus muris
- Prunus myrtifolia
- Prunus oblonga
- Prunus occidentalis
- Prunus ocellata
- Prunus ochoterenae
- Prunus omissa
- Prunus opaca
- Prunus paradoxa
- Prunus pedunculata
- Prunus pendula
- Prunus petraea
- Prunus phaeosticta
- Prunus pleuradenia
- Prunus podperae
- Prunus polystachya
- Prunus polytricha
- Prunus pseudoprostrata
- Prunus pulgarensis
- Prunus pygeoides
- Prunus reflexa
- Prunus regeliana
- Prunus reticulata
- Prunus rhamnoides
- Prunus rosea
- Prunus rubiginosa
- Prunus rufoides
- Prunus rugosa
- Prunus ruiziana
- Prunus salasii
- Prunus samydoides
- Prunus scoparia
- Prunus sellowii
- Prunus serratifolia
- Prunus setulosa
- Prunus spachiana
- Prunus spartioides
- Prunus spinulosa
- Prunus strobilifera
- Prunus subcoriacea
- Prunus subcorymbosa
- Prunus subglabra
- Prunus susakensis
- Prunus taiwaniana
- Prunus takasagomontana
- Prunus takenakae
- Prunus tartarea
- Prunus tatsienensis
- Prunus tetradenia
- Prunus tikalana
- Prunus tortuosa
- Prunus trichamygdalus
- Prunus trichostoma
- Prunus triloba
- Prunus tuberculata
- Prunus tucumanensis
- Prunus turcomanica
- Prunus turfosa
- Prunus turneriana
- Prunus ulei
- Prunus ulmifolia
- Prunus undulata
- Prunus urotaenia
- Prunus urumiensis
- Prunus verrucosa
- Prunus walkeri
- Prunus wallaceana
- Prunus wurdackii
- Prunus yunnanensis
- Prunus zhengheensis
- Prunus zinggii
- Prunus zippeliana
- Prunus × cistena
- Prunus × fruticans
- Prunus × hybrida
- Prunus × pugetensis
- Prunus × syriaca
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