Laurocerasus menghaiensis T.T.Yu & L.T.Lu

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Rosaceae > Laurocerasus

Characteristics

Trees to 14 m tall. Branchlets purplish brown, robust, yellowish pubescent when young, glabrescent, with many small lenticels. Petiole stout, 1–1.5 cm, yellowish pubescent, without nectaries; leaf blade ovate-oblong to oblong, 8–13 × 3–5 cm, thick, leathery, abaxially densely yellowish pubescent, adaxially shining and glabrous, base broadly cuneate, margin indistinctly shallowly obtusely serrate apically from middle, apex acute; secondary veins 7–11 on either side of midvein, distinct. Flowers unknown. Drupe blackish brown, broadly oblong, 2.2–2.5 × 1.4–1.7 cm, glabrous, apex obtuse; endocarp ± thin, not rugose; cotyledons large and fat. Fr. winter.
Life form annual
Growth form tree
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 14.0
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Distribution

Laurocerasus menghaiensis world distribution map, present in China

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:904461-1
WFO ID wfo-0000986125
COL ID 3SMSY
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Synonyms

Laurocerasus menghaiensis