Sweet Cherry
Prunus avium · Rosaceae · 양벚나무
How to spot it
Marked by prominent horizontal lenticels on the bark, two glands at the base of the leaf blade, and drupes on long stalks.
Look
- Leaves
- Leaf margins are toothed, and the base of the blade has two small red or green glands.
- Flowers
- Fragrant white five-petaled flowers open in round clusters as the leaves emerge.
- Fruit
- A fleshy drupe on a long stalk, yellow, red or purplish red, with a large stone inside.
- Bark
- Horizontal lenticels are prominent.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Planted
- Native to
- From Europe to Afghanistan, and northern Africa.
- Ecology
- NC State records it as a larval food plant of the American butterfly Papilio glaucus; ripe fruit is eaten by birds and squirrels.
Sources
- NC State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox
- 국립수목원 국가표준재배식물목록(개정)
- 국립생물자원관, 국가생물종목록 I(2019)
- Oregon State University Landscape Plants — Prunus avium
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University Plant Database — Prunus avium
- 한병우 외 (2022), 국내 벚나무류(Prunus subg. Cerasus) 식재 현황: 분당중앙공원 일대 사례연구, 식물분류학회지 52(1):54–63
- 플리니우스 『박물지』 15권 30장(Bostock 영역, 퍼세우스 디지털 도서관)
- Online Etymology Dictionary 'cherry (n.)'
- 한국향토문화전자대전(대구역사문화대전) '상동체리'