Although, according to Sargent, this bird cherry is a common tree in Hokkaido (Yezo), and in the mountain forests of the main island of Japan, it was not brought into cultivation until 1915. The same author (Forest Flora of Japan, p. 38) observes that it is always easily distinguished by its pale, nearly white bark. Young shoots glabrous. Leaves 3 to 6 in. long, oblong, often inclined to obovate, the apex drawn out into a long slender point, the base more or less heart-shaped, the margins closely set with fine almost bristle-like teeth, thin, membranous, glabrous above and the same beneath except for the tufts of brownish down in the vein-axils; stalk slender, 1 to 11⁄2 in. long, with one or two glands near the blade. Flowers small, white, produced in slender, glabrous cylindrical racemes 4 to 6 in. long, about 1 in. wide. The species has been found in Manchuria and Sakhalin. ‘The wood is very hard and close-grained, and is used by the Ainos for numerous domestic purposes’ (Sargent).
Prunus ssiori F. Schmidt
Genus
Other species in the genus
- Prunus alleghaniensis Porter
- Prunus americana Marsh.
- Prunus × amygdalo -persica (West.) Rehd.
- Prunus amygdalus
- Prunus angustifolia Marsh.
- Prunus apetala (Sieb. & Zucc.) Franch. & Sav.
- Prunus arabica (Oliv.) Meikle
- Prunus argentea (Lam.) Rehd.
- Prunus armeniaca L.
- Prunus avium L.Gean, Mazzard
- Prunus besseyi Bailey
- Prunus brigantina Vill.
- Prunus campanulata Maxim.
- Prunus canescens Bois
- Prunus cantabrigiensis Stapf
- Prunus cerasifera Ehrh.
- Prunus cerasus L.
- Prunus cocomilia Ten.
- Prunus concinna Koehne
- Prunus conradinae Koehne
- Prunus consociiflora Schneid.
- Prunus cornuta (Royle) Steud.
- Prunus cuthbertii Small
- Prunus dasycarpa Ehrh.
- Prunus davidiana (Carr.) Franch.
- Prunus × dawyckensis Sealy
- Prunus dielsiana Schneid.
- Prunus domestica L.Plum
- Prunus dulcis (Mill.) D. A. Webb
- Prunus emarginata (Hook.) Eaton
- Prunus × fontanesiana (Spach) Schneid.
- Prunus fruticosa Pall.
- Prunus glandulosa Thunb.
- Prunus grayana Maxim.
- Prunus hortulana Bailey
- Prunus humilis Bunge
- Prunus ilicifolia (Hook. & Arn.) Walp.
- Prunus incana (Pall.) Batsch
- Prunus incisa Thunb.Fuji Cherry
- Prunus jacquemontii Hook. f.
- Prunus kansuensis Rehd.
- Prunus lannesiana
- Prunus laurocerasus L.
- Prunus litigiosa Schneid.
- Prunus lusitanica L.
- Prunus maackii Rupr.
- Prunus mahaleb L.
- Prunus maritima Marsh.
- Prunus maximowiczii Rupr.
- Prunus microcarpa C. A. Mey.
- Prunus mira Koehne
- Prunus mugus Hand.-Mazz.
- Prunus mume Sieb. & Zucc.
- Prunus nigra Ait.
- Prunus nipponica Matsum.
- Prunus orthosepala Koehne
- Prunus padus L.
- Prunus pensylvanica L. f.
- Prunus persica (L.) Batsch
- Prunus pilosiuscula (Schneid.) Koehne
- Prunus prostrata Labill.
- Prunus pumila L.
- Prunus rufa Hook. f.
- Prunus salicina Lindl.
- Prunus sargentii Rehd.
- Prunus serotina Ehrh.
- Prunus serrula Franch.
- Prunus serrulata Lindl.
- Prunus sibirica L.
- Prunus × sieboldii (Carr.) Witttnack
- Prunus simonii Carr.
- Prunus speciosa (Koidz.) Ingram
- Prunus spinosa L.
- Prunus subcordata Benth.
- Prunus subhirtella Miq.
- Prunus tangutica (Batal.) Koehne
- Prunus tenella Batsch
- Prunus tomentosa Thunb.
- Prunus triloba Lindl.
- Prunus virginiana L.
- Prunus × yedoensis Matsum.