Twenty years ago, planting Mayday and Canada Red trees seemed like a great idea, beautiful white spring flowers on the Maydays (Prunus padus) and brilliant purple leaves on the Canada Reds (Prunus ...

According to the coevolution theory of autumn colours, the bright colours of trees evolved as a warning signal towards parasites colonizing the plant in autumn. We monitored colonization of the aphid ...

Both Prunus padus, commonly known as European bird cherry (EBC), chokecherry, or mayday trees, and Prunus virginiana, commonly known as Canadian red, or chokecherry, were originally introduced in ...

Mayday trees, or Prunus padus, which were introduced as an ornamental tree, crowd out other native species. (Marc Lester / Alaska Dispatch News) ...

Originally introduced in Alaska as attractive, ornamental trees, Prunus padus (AKA European bird cherry, chokecherry, or mayday trees), and Prunus virginiana (AKA Canadian red, or chokecherry ...

If you're in the market for such a tree, though, our native cherries – Prunus padus, or bird cherry, and Prunus avium, or gean – are certainly… ...

Within Prunus, two major groups are recognizable: (1) the Amygdalus-Prunus group, and (2) the Cerasus-Laurocerasus-Padus group. The clades in the ITS phylogeny are not congruent with most subgeneric ...

Prunus padus, the bird cherry, is native to northern Europe, including Britain. The cultivar "Colorata", discovered in Sweden, has bronze-red young leaves in spring, which act as a lovely foil for the ...

2743 Record Last Modified 4 Nov 2022 Specimen Count 1 Collection Date 1 Jun 1967 Barcode 03717981 USNM Number 2590801A Place Golmarg, Kashmir., Jammu and Kashmir, India, Asia-Tropical Published Name ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. The black cherry or Prunus serotina is a species in the subgenus Padus ...