Common Name: ROSE FAMILY Habit: Annual to tree, glandular or not. Leaf: simple to palmately or pinnately compound, generally alternate; stipules free to fused (0), persistent to deciduous. Inflorescence: cyme, raceme, panicle, cluster, or flowers 1; bractlets on pedicel ("pedicel bractlets") generally 0--3(many), subtended by bract or generally not. Flower: generally bisexual, radial; hypanthium free or fused to ovary, saucer- to funnel-shaped, subtending bractlets ("hypanthium bractlets") 0--5, alternate sepals; sepals generally 5; petals generally 5, free; stamens (0,1)5--many, anther pollen sacs generally 2; pistils (0)1--many, simple or compound, ovary superior to inferior, styles 1--5. Fruit: 1--many per flower, achene (fleshy-coated or not), follicle, drupe, or pome with generally papery core, occasionally drupe-like with 1--5 stones. Seed: generally 1--5 (per fruit, not per flower). Genera In Family: 110 genera, +- 3000 species: worldwide, especially temperate; many cultivated for ornament, fruit, especially Cotoneaster, Fragaria, Malus, Prunus, Pyracantha, Rosa, Rubus. Note: Number of teeth is per leaf or leaflet, not per side of leaf or leaflet, except in Drymocallis. eFlora Treatment Author: Daniel Potter & Barbara Ertter, family description, key to genera, treatment of genera by Daniel Potter, except as noted Scientific Editor: Daniel Potter, Thomas J. Rosatti.
Prunus persica (L.) Batsch
NATURALIZED Habit: Tree 3--10 m, not thorny. Leaf: deciduous; petiole 5--10(15) mm; blade (50)70--150 mm, oblong to lanceolate, finely serrate, base tapered to obtuse, tip acuminate. Inflorescence: (subsessile cluster) or not; flowers 1(2); pedicels 0--3 mm. Flower: sepals entire, ciliate; petals 10--17 mm, dark pink. Fruit: 40--80 mm, velvety, yellow to +- orange tinged with red; pulp fleshy. Chromosomes: 2n=16. Ecology: Roadsides, canyons, chaparral as waif; Elevation: < 1300 m. Bioregional Distribution: CaRH, SCo, SnGb; Distribution Outside California: probably native to eastern Asia. Flowering Time: Mar Jepson eFlora Author: Joseph R. Rohrer Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange) Previous taxon: Prunus ilicifolia subsp. lyonii Next taxon: Prunus subcordata
Citation for this treatment: Joseph R. Rohrer 2012, Prunus persica, in Jepson Flora Project (eds.) Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/eflora_display.php?tid=40006, accessed on October 04, 2023.
Citation for the whole project: Jepson Flora Project (eds.) 2023, Jepson eFlora, https://ucjeps.berkeley.edu/eflora/, accessed on October 04, 2023.
Geographic subdivisions for Prunus persica:
CaRH, SCo, SnGb
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