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Wild Cherry
Wild Cherry
Prunus avium
Plantae
COMMON

Stats

Lifespan
60-100 yrs
Size
Large
Diet
Photosynthetic
Biome
Temperate forest
Range
Europe
Movement
Sessile
Breeding
Seeds
Defense
Toxins
Status
Common

About

The wild ancestor of nearly every cultivated sweet cherry, bearing dark red fruit on tall straight trunks ringed with shining coppery bark. A single mature tree can drop tens of thousands of stones in a season, scattered far and wide by thrushes and waxwings.

Life cycle

  1. 1.
    seed
    A dormant seed waits for water and warmth before germinating.
  2. 2.
    sprout
    A first shoot emerges with cotyledon leaves and a tap root reaching down.
  3. 3.
    sapling
    A young plant grows true leaves and a stem or trunk, putting on height each season.
  4. 4.
    mature
    Fully grown, flowering or fruiting at adult size.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom
Plantae
Phylum
Tracheophyta
Class
Magnoliopsida
Order
Rosales
Family
Rosaceae
Genus
Prunus
Species
Prunus avium