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Prunus divaricata Ledeb. Rosaceae

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Ethnobotany of the Caucasus

Part of the book series: European Ethnobotany ((EUROETH))

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Synonyms

Prunus cerasifera Ehrh.

Local Names

Armenia: (shlor); Azerbaijan: Alça; Georgia: – t’q’emali, – barq’end (Svanetian), – barq’ven (Svanetian), – omuri (Megrelian), – t’q’imal (Ingiloian), – t’q’imali (Kiziqian), – tsomuri (Chanetian) (Makashvili 1991). English: Cherry plum

Botany and Ecology

Shrub. Tree (often many stemmed) or shrub (1.5) 4–10 (15) m high, with more or less spiny, broadly flexuous, thin, erect or drooping branches. The young shoots are reddish, brown, perennial branches dark gray. The winter buds are glabrous, rarely slightly pubescent, oblong-ovoid, small. The leaves of annual shoots are alternate, on spurs, approximate, in subsessile fascicles. The petioles (0.5) 1–1.5 (2.3) cm long, glabrous, rarely sparingly pubescent, eglandulose. The lamina oval or oval-ovate to oval-lanceolate (1) 4.5–6 (10) cm long, (0.5) 2–4 (6) cm wide, gradually acuminate, narrowly or broadly cunneate at base, with finely, obtusely, rarely acutely, sometimes doubly serrate-dentate,...

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  1. Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State University, Botanikuri St. 1, 0105, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Ketevan Batsatsashvili, Manana Khutsishvili, Inesa Maisaia, Shalva Sikharulidze & David Tchelidze

  2. Institute of Botany, Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences, Baku, Azerbaijan

    Naiba P. Mehdiyeva & Valida M. Alizade

  3. Institute of Botany of National Academy of Sciences, Yerevan, Armenia

    George Fayvush & Alla Aleksanyan

  4. 4-D Research Institute, Ilia State University, 5, Cholokasvili Ave., 0162, Tbilisi, Georgia

    Zaal Kikvidze

  5. Instituto de Ecología-UMSA, Herbario Nacional de Bolivia, Campus Universitario, Cota Cota Calle 27, La Paz, Bolivia

    Narel Y. Paniagua Zambrana

  6. William L. Brown Center, Missouri Botanical Garden, P.O. Box 299, St. Louis, MO, 63166-0299, USA

    Rainer W. Bussmann

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Batsatsashvili, K. et al. (2017). Prunus divaricata Ledeb. Rosaceae . In: Bussmann, R. (eds) Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. European Ethnobotany. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49412-8_75

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