Hairy Sargent's cherry
Prunus verecunda var. pendula · Rosaceae · 수양벚나무
How to spot it
Compared with the cherry (beotnamu), the leaf underside has fine hairs; the drooping-branch form (cheojin-gae beotnamu) is told apart by the branches hanging down in addition.
Look
- Leaves
- Leaves are egg-shaped or broadly to narrowly obovate, 5 to 8 cm long and 2 to 4.5 cm wide, with an abrupt point and rounded base, and sharp teeth. There are fine hairs on the underside and 2 to 4 nectar glands on the leaf stalk.
- Flowers
- Flowers open in April together with the leaves, 3.5 cm across, pale pink-red or pinkish-white, in umbels of 2 to 3. The petals are round, about 2 cm long, with a notched tip.
- Fruit
- The fruit is a round drupe 3.5 mm across, ripening black. The stone is flat and pale yellow.
Where it grows
- Native to
- Grows in mountains throughout the country.
- Ecology
- Grows well in fertile soil in mountain valleys and near villages. It likes sun, is very cold hardy, and grows well in moist sandy loam.