The difference between crystal cherry and common cherry

Cherry is a perennial woody plant of Prunus in Rosaceae, and crystal cherry is a dish made of sliced cherries and gelatin.

Cherry, a perennial woody plant of Prunus in Rosaceae, has grayish white bark, grayish brown or grayish brown branches and green buds; The leaves are oval; Inflorescence umbrella-shaped, petals obovate, white or pink, fruit nearly spherical, red when mature; The flowering period is from March to April, and the fruiting period is from May to June.

"Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "It is called cherry because it is as bright as a pearl, while Xu Shen is a peach, and the cloud warbler contains food, so it is also called Han Tao, which is also connected", hence the name cherry. Cherry originated in China, and now it is mainly distributed in China, Jiangsu, Shandong and other places, and also cultivated in Northeast China and Yunnan. It is distributed in Europe, Asia and North America.

Cherry often grows in forests, shrubs and grasslands on sunny slopes; I like warm environment, cold-resistant, humid, fertile, deep soil, loose soil and well-ventilated sandy loam. The propagation mode of cherry is mainly seed propagation, and artificial methods such as plant division, layering and cutting are often used to propagate seedlings.

Morphological characteristics of cherry;

Trees, 2-6 meters high, with gray bark. Branchlets grayish brown, shoots green, glabrous or sparsely pilose. Winter buds ovate, glabrous. Leaf blade ovate or oblong-ovate, 5- 12 cm long and 3-5 cm wide, tapering at the top or tail-shaped, rounded at the base, with sharp double serrations at the edge.

There are small glands at the tip of the tooth, which are dark green on the top, nearly hairless, light green on the bottom, sparsely hairy along veins or between veins, 9- 1 1 pair of lateral veins, 0.7- 1.5 cm long petiole, sparsely hairy, with 1 or 2 large glands at the top, and the stipules fall early. Inflorescence corymbose or subumbellate, with 3-6 flowers, first leaf open, involucre obovate-elliptic, brown.

About 5 mm long and 3 mm wide, with glandular teeth on the side. Pedicel 0.8- 1.9 cm long, pubescent. Calyx tube is bell-shaped, 3-6 mm long and 2-3 mm wide, and the outside is pubescent. Sepals triangular-ovoid or ovoid-oblong, apex acute or obtuse, entire, half or half the length of calyx tube, petals white.

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