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PRINSEPIA sinensis
PRINSEPIA sinensis
Grows singly or in small groups along the banks of rivers in the Southern Primorye, China, and Korea.
An original, prickly, up to 2 m tall, fast-growing shrub with long, curved, rod-shaped branches covered with light-gray, peeling bark and rare thorns up to 2 cm long. The bark of young shoots is greenish-gray. The leaves on young shoots are alternate, on old shoots - in bunches, oblong-ovate or lanceolate; dark green above, matte, lighter below, slightly glossy, in autumn - ocher-yellow or yellowish-brownish. Flowers in axillary bunches of 1-4, yellow, with a faint pleasant smell, up to 1.5 cm in diameter. Fruits are spherical drupes, slightly compressed from the sides, red, juicy, up to 2 cm in diameter, sour, edible. Bears fruit from 7 years. Propagated by sowing freshly collected seeds - in the fall, stratified for 4 months - in the spring. Can be propagated by green cuttings and layering.
An original, prickly, up to 2 m tall, fast-growing shrub with long, curved, rod-shaped branches covered with light-gray, peeling bark and rare thorns up to 2 cm long. The bark of young shoots is greenish-gray. The leaves on young shoots are alternate, on old shoots - in bunches, oblong-ovate or lanceolate; dark green above, matte, lighter below, slightly glossy, in autumn - ocher-yellow or yellowish-brownish. Flowers in axillary bunches of 1-4, yellow, with a faint pleasant smell, up to 1.5 cm in diameter. Fruits are spherical drupes, slightly compressed from the sides, red, juicy, up to 2 cm in diameter, sour, edible. Bears fruit from 7 years. Propagated by sowing freshly collected seeds - in the fall, stratified for 4 months - in the spring. Can be propagated by green cuttings and layering.
Eng.: Cherry prinsepia. Bot. syn.: Plagiospermum sinense Oliv.
