Tibetan cherry

Prunus serrula

Flowers on hairless stalks, in clusters of 2–3.
Leaf margins with pointed teeth.
Leaf stalk hairless.
Bark of trunk and branches very glossy, purplish brown, peeling in thin, copper-brown strips.

Tibetan cherry leaf © Manfred Sause, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

Rounded, 10–15m tall.

Margins with sharp, gland-tipped teeth and a long, pointed apex; downy or hairless beneath.

Roughly 15mm across, white.

Roughly 10mm long, ovoid, red when ripe.

The Tibetan cherry originates from the Sichuan and Yunnan provinces of China. It is grown for its spectacular, extremely glossy bark.

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