Basisdaten
description:
The mahaleb cherry is native to Western Asia and Central and Southern Europe. They also often grows only shrubby.
Tree profile
name botanical:
Prunus mahaleb
other name:
St Lucie Cherry
family:
Rose family (Rosaceae)
species:
deciduous tree
height:
up to 10 m (33 ft)
leaf:
The leaves are rounded to heart-shaped, dark-green with a serrated edge. The leaf arrangement is alternate.
leaf shape:
roundish
leaf margin:
serrated
leaf position:
alternate
fall foliage:
yellow
flowering:
April - May
blossom color:
white
blossom description:
The white flowers stand in umbels and are fragrant.
gender distribution:
monoecious / hermaphrodite
fruit:
The small fruits are first red and later black. They are edible, but taste bitter.
bark:
The bark is greenish at young trees, at elderly gray-brown.
root:
Deep roots with stolons
location:
sun
soil:
permeable soils
ph value:
neutral to strongly alkaline
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