Jadu cherry
Prunus salicina · Rosaceae · 자두나무
Look
- Leaves
- Leaves are alternate, elliptic to long ovate, 5 to 10 cm long, with blunt or doubly toothed margins and 2 to 5 glands on the petiole.
- Flowers
- Opens in April before the leaves, usually in threes; white flowers 2 to 2.2 cm across.
- Fruit
- Fruit is globose with an indented base, 2.2 cm across (cultivated forms are larger), ripening yellow or purple in July.
- Bark
- One-year-old twigs are reddish brown, hairless and glossy.
Where it grows
- Native to
- China and the Russian Far East.
- Ecology
- Grows well on idle land and in vegetable gardens near houses; strongly cold-hardy but weak against drought and salt, with average air-pollution resistance.