Scientific name: Prunus avium (L.) L.
Common name: Wild Cherry
Description
Habit: A woody, deciduous tree, to 30 m high, with few suckers.
Leaves: Alternate, 6-15 cm, stalked, with small stipules, undivided, toothed, oval-lanceolate, pointed, hairy on underside, soft and drooping when young.
Flowers: White, actinomorphic, hermaphrodite, 2-2.5 cm across, on long and slender flowering stalks, in clusters; calyx 5-toothed, bowl-shaped, constricted at the top, not persisting in fruit, sepals bent backwards when flowering; petals 5, free; stamens numerous; carpel 1.
Fruits: A drupe, dark red and bitter, 9-12 mm.
Twigs: Reddish-brown.
Bark: Smooth, shining, reddish-brown, peeling off in horizontal strips on older trees.
Habitat: Woods.Distribution: Rather rare.
Native status: Native
Of conservation interest: No