bird cherry

 

 

 

 

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Bird Cherry

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Wikispecies has information on:

Prunus padus

Wikispecies

bird cherry (plural bird cherries)

1. Prunus padus or any deciduous species of Prunus subg. Padus that is closely related to it (tree or fruit).
   • 1886, Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, translated by H.L. Brækstad, Folk and Fairy Tales, page 280:

     On the verdant slope and down by the edge of the water, the bird-cherry and the mountain ash displayed their flowery garb of summer.

2. Pin cherry (Prunus pensylvanica)
3. (rare) Sweet cherry (Prunus avium).

• (Prunus padus): hackberry, hagberry, Mayday tree
• (Prunus pensylvanica): pin berry, fire cherry

• European bird cherry (Prunus padus var. padus)
• Asian bird cherry (Prunus padus var. commutata)
• Himalayan bird cherry (Prunus cornuta)
• Hokkaido bird cherry (Prunus ssiori)
• Virginian bird cherry (Prunus virginiana)
• American bird cherry (Prunus serotina or Prunus pensylvanica)