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Trees or shrubs, sometimes spiny (not in ours). Stipules present. Leaves alternate, simple. Flowers bisexual, 5-merous. sometimes flowering before the leaves. Petals inserted at the mouth of the calyx tube. Stamens 10-many. Carpel 1, style terminal; ovules 2. Fruit drupaceous, indehiscent, 1(-2)-seeded. Worldwide: 200 species in temperate zones and on tropical mountains Zimbabwe: 10 cultivated taxa. |
No image of a cultivated species but there is an image of a native or naturalised species |
| Species | Content |
| africana (Hook. f.) Kalkman | Description, Image |
| armeniaca L. | |
| cerasoides D. Don | Description, Image |
| cerasus L. | |
| domestica L. | |
| laurocerasus L. | |
| persica (L.) Bartsch | |
| serotina Ehrh. var. salicifolia (Kunth.) Koene | |
| serrulata Lindl. | |
| × blireana André |
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