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Prunus spinosa,
called blackthorn or sloe, is an Old
World species of
flowering plant in the rose family, Rosaceae. It is
locally naturalized in parts...
- one of the
parents of the
cultivated plum,
Prunus domestica,
perhaps crossing with the sloe,
Prunus spinosa, or
perhaps the sole parent. This
would make...
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fruits Ripe
fruits The species'
hybrid parentage was
believed to be
Prunus spinosa and P. cerasifera; however,
recent cytogenetic evidence seem to implicate...
- to
include the
species of
modern Prunus—Amygdalus, Cerasus,
Prunus, and Padus—but
simplified it to
Amygdalus and
Prunus in 1758.
Since then, the various...
- gin and
blackthorn fruits (sloes),
which are the
drupe fruit of the
Prunus spinosa tree,
which is a
relative of the plum. As an
alcoholic drink, sloe gin...
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Beech trees in
particular are
frequent conjoiners, as is
blackthorn (
Prunus spinosa). Such
trees are
often colloquially referred to as "husband and wife"...
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germanica Prunus armeniaca Prunus cerasifera Prunus cerasus Prunus dulcis Prunus laurocerasus Prunus persica (introduced by man)
Prunus spinosa Pyrus communis...
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Prunus subg.
Prunus is a
subgenus of
Prunus. This
subgenus includes plums,
apricots and bush cherries. Some
species conventionally included in
Prunus...
- pecans, and
amlas (Indian gooseberries).
Other examples include sloe (
Prunus spinosa) and ivy (Hedera helix). The
coconut is also a drupe, but the mesocarp...
- English.
Shillelaghs are
traditionally made from
blackthorn (sloe) wood (
Prunus spinosa) or oak. With the
scarcity of oak in
Ireland the term came increasingly...
