Jeju flowering cherry
Prunus × nudiflora · Rosaceae · 왕벚나무
How to spot it
Flowers open before the leaves, the hypanthium and pedicels are hairy, and the hypanthium is red. A pair of large, distinct nectar glands sits at the leaf base.
Look
- Leaves
- Alternate simple leaves; the blade is elliptic-ovate or obovate, 7.3 to 11.8 cm long and 3.7 to 6.3 cm wide, with 10 to 12 pairs of side veins. The margin has fine double teeth (mixed with single teeth); the soft hairs on the underside of young leaves remain only on the veins when mature, and a pair of large, distinct nectar glands sits at the base of the blade (or the upper leaf stalk).
- Flowers
- Blooms from late March to April before the leaves emerge. The hypanthium is cylindrical, hairy and red; the five petals are pale pink with a notched tip, and the pedicels have soft hairs.
- Fruit
- The drupe is round, 5.2 to 8.4 mm across, ripening blackish-purple in May to June; the middle layer is fleshy and astringent. The seed is round to ovoid, 4.5 to 5 mm long.
- Bark
- The stem bark is smooth and dark gray-brown with horizontally split lenticels.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Native (Jeju-do)
- Native to
- Korea (Jeju-do).