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Cherry laurel
Prunus laurocerasus
Poisonous — do not eat it.
If someone has eaten it, call emergency services or your poison control centre.
Dangerous to: cattle, sheep, goats, horses
If an animal has eaten this, call your vet.
About
Prunus laurocerasus, also known as cherry laurel, common laurel and sometimes English laurel in North America, is an evergreen species of cherry (Prunus), native to regions bordering the Black Sea in southwestern Asia and southeastern Europe, from Albania and Bulgaria east through Turkey to the Caucasus Mountains and northern Iran.
- Family
- Rosaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Prunus laurocerasus
- Slug
- prunus-laurocerasus
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Genus
- Prunus
- Species
- laurocerasus
- Wikidata QID
- Q157508
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 3
- Data completeness
- 43
Generated sections & citations
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