Herbario Virtual del Mediterráneo Occidental
Àrea de Botànica, Departament de Biologia, Universitat de les Illes Balears
Prunus cerasifera Ehrh.
Family : ROSACEAE
Genus : Prunus
Catalan common name : Prunera de fulla roja. Prunera de jardí.
Spanish common name : Ciruelo de Pissard. Ciruelo mirobolano. Ciruelo-cerezo. Mirobolano. Pisardi.
General distribution : Iranian-Tunisian
Flowering time : March. April. May.
Life-forms : Macrophanerophyte.
Habitat : Gardens.
Uses and properties : Edible or foodstuffs.
Observations : The variety most common to the home garden is Pisardii. It is normally used as the rootstock for the grafting of other prune varieties.
Origen : Oest d´Àsia
Location on-campus UIB : Relativament freqüent bordejant l'edifici Guiem Colom Casasnovas, a l'entrada del bar de l'edifici Mateu Orfila, etc.
Description : A deciduous tree that grows to 6-7 m in height, with open and ascending foliage. Bark is smooth and dark. Leaves are alternate, simple or elliptic, 2-7 cm in length. Margin in serrate with a pointed and hairless apex, with the exception of the central nerve on the reverse. Green coloured leaves that turn the colour of wine in the fall. Flowers are generally solitary, 2-2.5 cm in diameter, white to rose in colour. Flowers emerge before the leaves. The fruit is drupe and reddish-yellowish, sphere shaped and hairless, measures some 2.5 cm in diameter and matures during the summer.
Flowering period : March-may
