Prunus umbellata
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Read about Prunus umbellata in the Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture
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Prunus umbellata, Ell. Black Sloe of the S. Twiggy small tree (10-20 ft.), with compact head and very slender glabrous branchlets, often more or less thorny: lvs. small (mostly 2 in. or less long), light green and rather thin, oblong, lanceolate, oblong-lanceolate or oval, obtuse or acute, closely serrulate, sometimes very closely pubescent beneath even at maturity; petiole without glands: fls. small to medium in size (1/2-3/4in. broad), white, on slender glabrous pedicels in few- fld, umbels, appearing with or just before the lvs.: fr. small, globular, slender-stalked, from pure yellow to orange-yellow and red-blotched, thinly glaucous, the flesh usually sour and bitter and free from the oval or subglobose stone. Near the coast from S. C. to Fla. S.S. 4:155.—Not intro. as a fr.-plant, but sometimes planted for the profusion of its white fls. The fr. is not unlike a cherry in shape, and is sometimes used in conserves. The foliage suggests P. cerasifera. Var. injucunda, Sarg. (P. injucunda, Small. P. mitis, Beadle). A hill-country form: lvs. oval or oblong-oval, usually somewhat longer and broader than in P. umbellata itself, narrowed toward the base, acute or acuminate, mostly pubescent beneath and somewhat pubescent above: fls. appearing later (March, April) ; calyx pubescent rather than glabrous. N. C. to Ga., Ala., and Miss., apparently passing into var. tarda. Var. tarda. Wight (P. tarda, Sarg.). Tree, 18-20 ft., distinguished from P. umbellata by lighter-colored bark, later-ripening fr., and more oblong stone. W. Miss, to Texas and S. Ark., the nearly globular, yellow, red, purple, or blue fr. (about 1/2in. diam.) ripening in Oct. and Nov. CH
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References
- Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture, by L. H. Bailey, MacMillan Co., 1963
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