Rosaceae
Chinese sour cherry
Prunus pseudocerasus
- Family
- Rosaceae
- Genus
- Prunus
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Common names
By language (5)
- Chinese
- 樱桃, 櫻桃, 楔桃, 荆桃, 莺桃, 崖樱桃, 樱桃叶, 樱桃枝
- Dutch
- Chinese kers, Chinese zure kers
- English
- Chinese sour cherry, Chinese cherry
- Japanese
- カラミザクラ, シナミザクラ
- Persian
- آلبالوی چینی, البالوی چینی, شینامی-زاکورا, پرونوس پسودوسراسوس, گیلاس ترش چینی
Synonyms
- Cerasus cantabrigiensis (Stapf) Ohle
- Cerasus pseudocerasus (Lindl.) Anon.
- Cerasus pseudocerasus (Lindl.) Loudon
- Cerasus pseudocerasus unranked chinensis Anon.
- Cerasus pseudocerasus unranked flore-albopleno Anon.
- Cerasus scopulorum (Koehne) T.T.Yu & C.L.Li
- Padus pseudocerasus (Lindl.) S.Ya.Sokolov
- Prunus cantabrigiensis Stapf
- Prunus involucrata Koehne
- Prunus pauciflora Bunge
- Prunus pseudocerasus f. virescens Koehne
- Prunus pseudocerasus f. viridiflora Makino
- Prunus pseudocerasus subvar. glabra Makino
- Prunus pseudocerasus unranked roseoplena Späth
- Prunus pseudocerasus unranked spontanea Makino
- Prunus pseudocerasus unranked ukon Koehne
- Prunus pseudocerasus unranked yoshino Späth
- Prunus pseudocerasus var. elegans Koidz.
- Prunus saltuum Koehne
- Prunus scopulorum Koehne
Photos
Photo: Keith Edkins, CC BY 2.5, from Wikimedia Commons 
Photo: Wikimedia Commons contributor, CC BY 4.0, from Wikimedia Commons ![Chinese sour cherry: 櫻桃 Cerasus pseudocerasus [南京玄武湖公園 Nanjing, China]](https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/%E6%AB%BB%E6%A1%83_Cerasus_pseudocerasus_-%E5%8D%97%E4%BA%AC%E7%8E%84%E6%AD%A6%E6%B9%96%E5%85%AC%E5%9C%92_Nanjing%2C_China-_%2833470154676%29.jpg/1280px-%E6%AB%BB%E6%A1%83_Cerasus_pseudocerasus_-%E5%8D%97%E4%BA%AC%E7%8E%84%E6%AD%A6%E6%B9%96%E5%85%AC%E5%9C%92_Nanjing%2C_China-_%2833470154676%29.jpg)
Photo: 阿橋 HQ, CC BY-SA 2.0, from Wikimedia Commons
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Sources: classification, synonyms from World Flora Online Plant List (2026-06, CC0 1.0); common names, popularity from Wikidata (2026-10-26, CC0 1.0). About our plant data.