Cerasus microcarpa
Cerasus microcarpa
Subsp microcarpa: Yaban kirazı; Subsp tortuosa: Sarıdağ kirazı
Upright, spreading or prostrate shrub up to 3 m, unarmed or sometimes subspinescent; twigs ± glabrous. Stipules subulate, persistent. Leaves orbicular or elliptic to ovate-lancealate, on short shoots usually up to 20 mm, on long shoots up to 50 mm, glabrous to pubescent. Flowers 1-2; pedicels up to 15 mm, hypanthium cylindrical, up to 5-6 rom; petals white to pinkish, 4-5 mm; ovary glabrous. Drupe ovoid or occasionally globose, black, red, orange or yellow; stone slightly keeled, smooth.
1. Leaves bilaterally glabrous or slightly pubescent beneath when young, apex usually rounded, subsp. microcarpa
1. Leaves persistently and usually bilaterally pubescent, apex usually acute subsp. tortuosa
Distribution of species: S.W. & C. Asia east to Afghanistan and Transcaspia. Ir.-Tur. element.
