Prunus phaeosticta

(Prunus phaeosticta)

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Description

Prunus phaeosticta, the dark-spotted cherry, is a species of Prunus native to China, including Taiwan, and southeast Asia, including far eastern India, Bangladesh, Burma, Thailand, Laos and Vietnam. It goes by a number of different names in Chinese, including 黑星櫻, black star cherry, gland leaf cherry. It gets its specific epithet and its common names from the small dark spots (glands) on the undersides of its leaves.Formosan rock macaques (Macaca cyclopis) eat the fruit

Taxonomic tree:

Domain:
Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum:
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order:Rosales
Family:Rosaceae
Genus:Prunus
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