Prunus brachypetala (Boiss.) Walp.
Kurdish mountain cherry
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- Jan, shaded
- Feb, shaded
- Mar, shaded
- Apr
- May
- Jun, under 5 mm of rain
- Jul, under 5 mm of rain
- Aug, under 5 mm of rain
- Sep, under 5 mm of rain
- Oct
- Nov
- Dec, shaded
From few records: 6 records in 6 grid cells. The records.
Summary
Prunus brachypetala is a species of bush cherry native to Turkey, Iraq and Iran. Its fruit are edible and consumed locally.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Prunus brachypetala", CC BY-SA 4.0.
About the genus · Prunus
Prunus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs from the rose family (Rosaceae) that produce stone fruits, or drupes. As of March 2024, the genus has about 340 accepted species, including almonds, apricots, cherries, peaches, and plums. It has a cosmopolitan distribution, being native to the temperate regions of North America, the neotropics of South America, and temperate and tropical regions of Eurasia and Africa.
Quoted from Wikipedia, "Prunus", CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cultivation
Seasons
The rain rule reads a rainy season and no growing season: 70% of the median year's rain (601 mm of 853 mm) falls in December to March, the cooler part of the year, but the mean nightly low is below freezing in February, March, April and January, so the rule reads no growing season from it. Months are the habitat's, northern hemisphere; shifted six months for a southern-hemisphere collection: June to September.
Rain
853 mm in the median year at the habitat, 601 mm of it December to March. Wettest month January at 162 mm, driest month July at 1 mm; 4 months under 5 mm. Across the grid cells of the range the year's total runs 644 mm to 1,203 mm, the 10th to 90th percentile of each cell's own year. The median of the cells' own yearly totals, 875 mm, is the year's rain at the top of the page; the 853 mm here is the median year's, the twelve monthly medians added, which the rain rule reads. Habitat calendar, northern hemisphere; median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA.
Light
Open sky over the habitat: 20 to 52 mol/m²/day across the year (daily light integral, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA; the lowest 10th-percentile month across the cells is 16, the highest 90th-percentile month 52).
Warmth and air
Coldest: the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range is -10.4 °C, the absolute minimum -16.0 °C, 5,579 frost nights in 44 years, 126.8 a year (NASA POWER daily minima). Warmest: the 99th-percentile day is 35.2 °C. Monthly means: the coldest month's mean nightly low -6.5 °C in January (across the grid cells of the range -7.5 °C to -2.1 °C), the warmest month's mean daily high 31.2 °C in July (median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). Cold floor: -10.4 °C, which is the 1st-percentile night over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER).
Relative humidity at the habitat: 34 to 56% across the year (monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range, CHELSA). A figure about the air, saying nothing about how the plant takes water.
How this section is made
Each card states this species' habitat figures with their sources, and what two fixed rules read from them; nothing here says what the plant does, wants or tolerates. The rules · the terms.
Seasons. Read from the median year of CHELSA monthly rainfall and mean temperature across the grid cells of the range: the rain rule takes the smallest set of months carrying 70% of the rain and calls it winter when its mean is more than half a degree below the year's, summer when more than that above, and neither in between; the temperature rule, used only under 120 mm, names the cooler six months when they are at least a degree cooler than the other six. Months are shifted for the other hemisphere only where the temperature curve moves 4 °C or more and the habitat lies 10° or more from the equator. A reading of the curves, not an observation of the plant.
Rain. CHELSA monthly precipitation, median year across the grid cells of the range. The rain that falls where the species is recorded; nothing about how the plant takes water.
Light. CHELSA shortwave radiation at each envelope cell, a daily-mean flux taken to a daily total and converted at 2.07 mol of PAR per MJ. The sky over the habitat, measured; what reaches a plant under a rock, a shrub or a shade cloth is not.
Temperature. NASA POWER daily minima and maxima over 44 years at a typical spot in the range, lapse-corrected +750 m to its elevation; CHELSA monthly means, median year across the grid cells of the range. The cold floor is the 1st-percentile night named in its sentence. Not a measured survival limit for any plant in a pot.
Humidity. CHELSA relative humidity, median year across the grid cells of the range.
Climate across the habitat
From few records: this habitat climate is read from 6 records in 6 grid cells; a page says so under 12 records or 5 cells, and shows the figures as read.
Habitat months, northern hemisphere
Mean daily high from 3 °C in Jan to 31 °C in Jul and Aug; mean nightly low from -7 °C in Jan to 17 °C in Jul. The cold quarter, Dec to Feb, is the three months around the coldest month's mean nightly low. 853 mm of rain in the median year (the twelve monthly medians added), the wettest month Jan. The bands show the 10th to 90th percentile across 6 habitat cells. Over 44 years at a typical spot in the range (NASA POWER) the absolute minimum was -16.0 °C and the 99th-percentile day 35.2 °C; neither is dated to a month. Beneath: daily light integral and relative humidity through the year, each on its own scale.
Figures by month
| Figure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Day °C | 3 / 1–8 | 5 / 3–9 | 9 / 7–14 | 15 / 13–20 | 22 / 20–27 | 28 / 26–33 | 31 / 29–36 | 31 / 28–35 | 26 / 25–31 | 20 / 18–24 | 12 / 10–16 | 6 / 4–10 |
| Night °C | -7 / -8–-2 | -5 / -7–-1 | -2 / -3–3 | 4 / 2–8 | 10 / 7–13 | 14 / 12–18 | 17 / 15–21 | 16 / 15–20 | 13 / 11–17 | 8 / 6–12 | 2 / 0–5 | -3 / -5–1 |
| Rain mm | 162 / 145–197 | 151 / 115–192 | 144 / 118–185 | 89 / 44–170 | 28 / 12–71 | 2 / 0–7 | 1 / 1–3 | 2 / 1–5 | 2 / 1–5 | 34 / 7–81 | 94 / 43–166 | 144 / 131–179 |
| DLI | 22 / 18–24 | 28 / 23–30 | 35 / 31–36 | 42 / 39–44 | 49 / 46–51 | 52 / 51–52 | 50 / 49–50 | 47 / 46–48 | 41 / 40–43 | 32 / 30–36 | 24 / 21–27 | 20 / 16–22 |
| RH % | 56 / 49–60 | 55 / 48–60 | 53 / 47–58 | 48 / 43–54 | 40 / 35–48 | 34 / 29–41 | 34 / 31–39 | 35 / 32–39 | 35 / 32–40 | 42 / 38–47 | 49 / 44–54 | 54 / 47–59 |
How this section is made
Natural habitat
How this section is made
Photographs
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Also known as Cerasus boissieri; Cerasus bornmuelleri; Cerasus brachypetala; Cerasus brachypetala var. bornmuelleri; Cerasus incisa and 4 more. (GBIF Backbone)
The record
Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →
Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
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