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{{Treatment/ID
|accepted_name=Prunus mahaleb
|accepted_authority=Linnaeus
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Sp. Pl.
|place=1: 474. 1753
|year=1753
}}
|common_names=Mahaleb or perfumed or St. Lucie cherry
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
}}
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Rosaceae;Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae;Rosaceae tribe Amygdaleae;Prunus;Prunus mahaleb
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Rosaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>subfamily</small>[[Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>tribe</small>[[Rosaceae tribe Amygdaleae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Prunus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Prunus mahaleb]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 9
|mention_page=page 356, 359, 367
|treatment_page=page 366
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Shrubs </b>or trees, not suckering, 30–150 dm, not thorny. <b>Twigs</b> with terminal end buds, densely puberulent. <b>Leaves</b> deciduous; petiole 4–20 mm, glabrous or ± puberulent on adaxial surface, sometimes glandular distally, glands 1–2, discoid; blade broadly ovate, oblong, or suborbiculate, 1.9–4.5 × 1.2–3.4 cm, base usually rounded to truncate, sometimes subcordate, margins crenate, teeth blunt, glandular, apex abruptly acuminate, apicula obtuse, surfaces usually glabrous, sometimes midribs and veins hairy abaxially. <b>Inflorescences</b> 4–10-flowered, corymbs; central axes 8–40 mm. <b>Pedicels</b> 6–18 mm (subtended by leafy bracts), glabrous. <b>Flowers</b> blooming at leaf emergence; hypanthium conic-campanulate, 2–3 mm, glabrous externally; sepals reflexed, oblong, 1.3–2 mm, margins entire, surfaces glabrous; petals white, elliptic to obovate, 6–7 mm; ovaries glabrous. <b>Drupes</b> dark red to black, ovoid, 6–10 mm, glabrous; mesocarps leathery; stones ellipsoid to subglobose, ± flattened. <b>2n</b> = 16.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering Apr–May; fruiting Jun–Jul.
|habitat=Roadsides, stream banks, limestone bluffs and quarries, lowland thickets and woods, fencerows, chaparral
|elevation=0–2300 m
|distribution=B.C.;Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;Calif.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Mo.;Mont.;N.J.;N.Mex.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Oreg.;Pa.;Tenn.;Utah;Va.;Wash.;W.Va.;Eurasia.
|discussion=<p><i>Prunus mahaleb</i> was introduced to North America as a rootstock for commercial cherries and is now sometimes cultivated for its attractive and fragrant flowers. At one time, the aromatic wood was a favorite for tobacco pipes.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Prunus mahaleb
|authority=Linnaeus
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Rosaceae
|phenology=Flowering Apr–May; fruiting Jun–Jul.
|habitat=Roadsides, stream banks, limestone bluffs and quarries, lowland thickets and woods, fencerows, chaparral
|elevation=0–2300 m
|distribution=B.C.;Ont.;Ala.;Ark.;Calif.;Conn.;Del.;D.C.;Idaho;Ill.;Ind.;Iowa;Kans.;Ky.;Md.;Mass.;Mich.;Mo.;Mont.;N.J.;N.Mex.;N.Y.;N.C.;Ohio;Okla.;Oreg.;Pa.;Tenn.;Utah;Va.;Wash.;W.Va.;Eurasia.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Sp. Pl.
|publication year=1753
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://jpend@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-data-curation.git/src/f50eec43f223ca0e34566be0b046453a0960e173/coarse_grained_fna_xml/V9/V9_597.xml
|subfamily=Rosaceae subfam. Amygdaloideae
|tribe=Rosaceae tribe Amygdaleae
|genus=Prunus
|species=Prunus mahaleb
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