JAPANESE CHERRY TREE (prunus serrulata lindl.)

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	JAPANESE CHERRY TREE
	*prunus serrulata lindl.*

Name
JAPANESE CHERRY TREE

Scientific Name
prunus serrulata lindl.

JAPANESE CHERRY TREE

Place of origin: This of Asia.

Etimología: Prunus, Latin name of the wild plum tree. Serrulata, of the Latin serrulatus-a-um = sawed with small teeth, alluding to its leaves.

Description: Tree caducifolio that can reach 20 ms of stature, with grayish the brown crust or with many lenticelas. Simple leaves, ovadas or ovado-lanceoladas, of 7.5-12.5 cm. in length and 3-6,5 cm. in width, long acuminadas. Simple margin or doubly sawed, finishing each tooth in a rigid cilium. They in the beginning have green a copper color later to be dark by the beam and glaucas by envés; lampiñas by both faces. Pecíolo of about 2 cm. in 1-2 length provided glands. White or pink flowers of 2-3 cm. of diameter on clusters of short pedicelos with 2 to 5 flowers. They simultaneously appear that the leaves in Abril-Mayo. Cleared fruit, of about 6 cm. of diameter, blackish color.

Culture and uses: In Japan emblem is considered as national and forms part of the legendary patrimony of the country. It is tree of great ornamental value very cultivated. Some hortícolas varieties exist, such as: ` Serrulatá, ` Hupehensis', ` Spontaneá, etc.

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