Prunus × eminens Beck
A hybrid: P. cerasus × P. fruticosa, the parents Kew's World Checklist states for it (WCVP, RBG Kew).





9 photographs › Summary
Prunus × eminens or Prunus eminens is a species of small cherry tree native to central Europe. It is a naturally occurring hybrid of sour cherry, Prunus cerasus, and dwarf cherry, Prunus fruticosa, occasionally found where their ranges overlap. Like its parents, it is a tetraploid with 32 chromosomes. It is forming a hybrid swarm with, and threatening to extirpate, P. fruticosa in much of its western range through genetic pollution.
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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
Grouped as a temperate garden plant, listed under the genus Prunus in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “shrub or tree”, “temperate”.
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.
Group. Listed under the genus Prunus in the archetype table, and Kew describes it as “shrub or tree”, “temperate”. A group is taken only where Kew's description of the species agrees with the table's listing. The table gives no figure and no prose; the cold floor is the habitat's alone.
Climate across the habitat
Natural habitat
Photographs
Photographs: Patrick Hacker, CC BY, iNaturalist via GBIF (6).
Related
Other Prunus 125 in the reference
Prunus africana African cherry Photo: CC BY-SA, Tony Rebelo Prunus alaica Rosaceae
Prunus americana American plum Photo: CC BY, Tom Norton
Prunus andersonii Desert peach Photo: CC BY, Tom Wainwright
Prunus angustifolia Cherokee plum Photo: CC0, author not stated Prunus apetala Taiwan cherry
Prunus armeniaca Apricot Photo: CC BY, Michelle W. (鍾偉瑋)
Prunus avium Wild cherry Photo: CC0, author not stated
Prunus bifrons Rosaceae Photo: CC0, Andreas Manz Prunus brachypetala Kurdish mountain cherry Prunus brachystachya Rosaceae all 126 ›Names & registers
Also known as Prunus cerasus var. frutescens. (GBIF Backbone)
The record
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Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
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