Prunus glandulosa - Chinese Bush Cherry

Chinese Bush Cherry is a shrub 0.5-2 m tall. Branchlets are grayish brown to brown, hairless or velvet-hairy when young. Winter buds are ovoid, stipules linear, about 5 mm. Leaf-stalks are 1.5-3 mm; leaf blade oblong to elliptic-lanceshaped, 2.5-6 x 1-2 cm, below pale green and hairless or hairy along midvein, above green, base wedge-shaped, margin bluntly finely bi-sawtoothed, tip tapering; secondary veins 4 or 5 on either side of midvein. Flowers are borne singly or 2 in a fascicle, opening at same time as leaves or nearly so. Petals are pink or white, obovate. Stamens about 30. Style slightly longer than stamens, hairless or basally hairy. Flower-stalks are 6-8 mm, nearly hairless. Sepal-cup is bell-shaped, nearly as long as wide, sepals triangular-elliptic, as long as cup, recurved, margin frequently glandular-toothed, tip pointed. Cherry is red to purplish, almost spherical, 1-1.3 cm in diameter. Chinese Bush Cherry is native to China to SW Korea, cultivated elsewhere. Flowering: March-April.