Cerasus avium

Rosaceae

Cerasus avium

Cerasus DUHAMEL
Cerasus avium (L.) MOENCH
Ömür: Çok yıllık
Yapı: ağaç
Hayat formu:
İlk çiçeklenme zamanı: 3
Son çiçeklenme zamanı: 5
Habitat: karışık ormanlar
Minimum yükseklik: 0
Maksimum yükseklik: 1600
Endemik: -
Element: ?
Türkiye dağılımı: K. Türkiye
Genel dağılımı: O. ve K. Avrupa, Kafkasya, KB. İran
Bulunduğu kareler:A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 B3

C. avium (L.) Moench, Meth. 672 (1794). Syn: Prunus cerasus L. var. avium L., Sp. PI. 474 (1753); Prunus avium (L.) L., Fl. Suec. ed. 2:165 (1755). Ic: Hegi, I11. Fl. Mittel-Eur. 4(2): 662 (1922); Ross-Craig, Draw. Brit. PL 8: t. 3 (1955). Map 9, p. 27.
  Tree up to 25(-35) m; young shoots stout, glabrous. Stipules deciduous. Leaves ovate or obovate-oblong to elliptic, up to 160 x 80 mm, unequally, singly or doubly serrate, at first brownish and ± pilose beneath, becoming green and glabrous or with tufts of hairs restricted to the lower sides of the nerves; petioles up to 50 mm. Flowers 2-5 in umbels which lack subtending leaves; scales of involucre reflexed; pedicels 30-60 mm; hypanthium campanulate; petals white, 12-15 mm. Drupe subglobose, in wild forms c. 1 cm in diam., red to almost black, lustrous, with a bitter or sweet juicy flesh; stone ovoid or globose, smooth. FL 3-5. In mixed forest up to 1600 m. Widely cultivated and sometimes escaping.
  Described from Northern Europe (Hb. Linn. 640/22, photo !).
  Mainly N. Turkey. A1(E) Kırklareli: Istranca Da., Demirköy to Iğneada, Kayacık 11 ! A2(E) Istanbul: Belgrat Ormani, Yalt. (ISTO 1377)! A3 Bolu: Düzce to Akçakoca, 320 m, wild? D. 37519! A4 Kastamonu: above Küre, 1300 m, D. 21637 ! A5 Sinop: Boyabat to Sinop, 1150 m, D. 38071 ! A6 Samsun: Samsun, cult, Tobey 1588! A6 Ordu: nr. Fatsa, 50 m, Tobey 1588 ! A8 Çoruh: mountain above Artvin, 1600 m, D. 29709 ! B3 Kütahya: 6-8 km S.E. of Inönü, 900 m, D. 42111b!
  C. & S. Europe, Caucasia, N.W. Iran. Long cultivated for its fruit (in Turkish 'Kiraz') so that it is now difficult to distinguish between truly wild and naturalized populations. It is apparently native, however, in parts of N. Turkey.