Prunus_gentryi
Prunus gentryi
Species of flowering plant
Prunus gentryi is a species of wild cherry in the genus Prunus, family Rosaceae, native to the Mexican states of Chihuahua and Sonora. It grows along streambanks in mountainous regions of the Sierra Madre Occidental.[2][3] The scientific description was published in 1937.[4][5][6]
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Rosales |
Family: | Rosaceae |
Genus: | Prunus |
Species: | P. gentryi |
Binomial name | |
Prunus gentryi | |
Prunus gentryi is a tree up to 12 metres (39 feet) tall. The leaves are thick and leathery, dark green above and lighter below. The fruits are juicy and edible, generally purple although a yellow-fruited form, Prunus gentryi forma flavipulpa, is known from the State of Chihuahua.[7][8]
The Mountain Pima (= Pima Bajo) of the region near Yepachic, Chihuahua, call the tree and its fruits "aguasiqui." The fruits are a prized food, ripening in late summer.[9]
- Fuentes, A.C.D.; Martínez Salas, E.; Samain, M.-S. (2021). "Prunus gentryi". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 2021: e.T126593175A126598016. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T126593175A126598016.en. Retrieved 19 November 2021.
- Gentry, H.S. 1942. Rio Mayo plants. Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication 537.
- Paul C. Standley (1937). "Studies of American Plants - VII (description on pages 194–195)". Publication. Field Museum of Natural History. Botanical Series. 17 (2): 155–224.
- Felger et al. 2001. Trees of Sonora, Mexico. Oxford University Press.
- Laferrière, Joseph E., Charles W. Weber and Edwin A. Kohlhepp. 1991. Use and nutritional composition of some traditional Mountain Pima plant foods. Journal of Ethnobiology 11(1):93-114.