Prunus spinosa
Prunus spinosa
Çakal eriği
Sin: P.kurdica
Spiny shrubs or small trees; twigs pubescent. Leaves up to 5 x 2,5 cm, obovate to elliptic, crenate-serrate, glabrescent above, persistently pubescent beneath. Petioles up to c. 1 cm. Flowers white, 1, appearing before the leaves, c. 1,5 cm diam.; pedicels up to 1 cm, pubescent; sepals ciliate, glabrous to pubescent. Drupes erect, globose, 10-15 mm diam., bluish-black pruinose, flesh green, sour; stone adherent to pericarp, smooth or slightly scabrous. Fl. 3-4. In scrub andforest remnants, s.l.-1700 m.
Europe, N.W. Africa, Caucasia, N.W. Iran. Euro-Sib. element.
