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Rosaceae Week: Prunus caroliniana from California

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Gurcharan Singh

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Oct 7, 2011, 11:12:51 PM10/7/11
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Prunus caroliniana (Mill.) Aiton 
syn:  Laurocerasus caroliniana (Mill.) M. Roem.  Padus caroliniana Mill.

Common names: Carolina laurel cherry, mock orange, wild orange

Evergreen tree with lanceolate-oblong, acuminate, 5-10 cm long, entire glossy  leaves; flowers in dense 2.5 cm long racemes, 5-6 mm across; fruit ovoid, 7-8 mm long, black shining.

Photographed from California.



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Balkar Singh

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Oct 8, 2011, 12:13:04 AM10/8/11
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Nice catch Sir !!!
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Dr Balkar Singh
Head, Deptt. of Botany and Biotechnology
Arya P G College, Panipat
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Ushadi micromini

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Oct 9, 2011, 3:42:03 AM10/9/11
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nice...
where was it?
did you go to a nursery that sells these fruits and hedges?

or to a botanical garden?

no one person's garden can have these rare things, I suppose, unless
it happens to be the Knox berry family or Mr. Luther Burbank...


:) :)

Usha di
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On Oct 8, 9:13 am, Balkar Singh <balkara...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Nice catch Sir !!!
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> On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 8:42 AM, Gurcharan Singh <singh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > *Prunus caroliniana* (Mill.) Aiton
> > syn:  *Laurocerasus caroliniana* (Mill.) M. Roem. * Padus caroliniana*Mill.

Gurcharan Singh

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Oct 9, 2011, 4:08:42 AM10/9/11
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Ushadi
Grown along pathways in Sunnyvale


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Dr. Gurcharan Singh
Retired  Associate Professor
SGTB Khalsa College, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007
Res: 932 Anand Kunj, Vikas Puri, New Delhi-110018.
Phone: 011-25518297  Mob: 9810359089
http://people.du.ac.in/~singhg45/ 

ushadi Micromini

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Oct 9, 2011, 8:14:31 AM10/9/11
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Oh, ok..
that region of the state used to used to have fruit orchards...
noice ...
so these are now escaped and growing  own their own?
Thanks
Ushja di
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