Wild-spring cherry
Prunus spachiana f. ascendens · Rosaceae · 올벚나무
Look
- Leaves
- Broadly lanceolate leaves are alternate, 6 to 10 cm long, with pointed tips. Hairs are on both sides or on the veins beneath and on the petiole, and the margin has sharp teeth or double teeth.
- Flowers
- In early to mid-April, pale red flowers 1.5 to 1.8 cm across open before the leaves, 2 to 5 together in umbels. The pedicels are hairy, and the calyx tube is broad at the base and hairy.
- Fruit
- Round drupes ripen dark red from late July to late September.
- Bark
- Gray-brown and glossy. Small twigs are grayish purple, and one-year-old twigs are hairy.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Native
- Native to
- Japan and the Korean Peninsula (Jangsangot in Hwanghae-do, Wibongsan, Jirisan, Bogildo, Jeju-do).
- Ecology
- Described as growing well in mountain valleys.