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Prunus serrulata
About
Prunus serrulata or Japanese cherry, also called hill cherry, oriental cherry or East Asian cherry, is a species of cherry native to China, Japan, Korea and India, and is used for its spring cherry blossom displays and festivals. Current sources consider it to be part of a species complex with P. jamasakura and P. leveilleana, which have been reduced to synonyms.
- Family
- Rosaceae
Ecology
How it lives
- Propagated by
- Seed
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- Name
- Prunus serrulata
- Slug
- prunus-serrulata
- Kingdom
- Plantae
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Genus
- Prunus
- Species
- serrulata
- Wikidata QID
- Q165321
- Propagule type
- seed
- Container suitable
- No
- Indoor suitable
- No
- OSSI pledged
- No
- Hazard level
- 1
- Data completeness
- 43
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