Mahaleb Cherry

Basisdaten

mahaleb cherry (Prunus mahaleb) leaf
mahaleb cherry (Prunus mahaleb) leaf
  • mahaleb cherry (Prunus mahaleb) leaf
  • mahaleb cherry (Prunus mahaleb) leaf underside
  • mahaleb cherry (Prunus mahaleb) leaves
  • mahaleb cherry (Prunus mahaleb) tree crown
  • mahaleb cherry (Prunus mahaleb) trunk / bark
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

Typical diseases for Mahaleb Cherry

Typical fungi for Mahaleb Cherry