Prunus tenella, Batsch

Tutin, T. G., Heywood, V. H., Burges, N. A., Moore, D. M., Valentine, D. H., Walters, S. M. & Webb, D. A., 1981, Flora Europaea. Volume 2. Rosaceae to Umbelliferae, Cambridge University Press : 78

4. P. tenella Batsch , Beytr. Entw. Pragm. Gesch. Nat.-Reiche 29 (1801)

( P. nana (L.) Stokes , non Duroi, Amygdalus nana L. ).

Shrub up to 1-5 m, spreading by suckers, glabrous except for bud-scales and fruit; branches suberect, grey. Leaves up to 5 x 2 cm, but often smaller, lanceolate to oblong-elliptical, serrate. Flowers mostly solitary; hypanthium tubular, about twice as long as wide; petals 10-15 mm, bright pink (rarely white). Fruit 12-20 mm, subglobose, densely villous with yellowish hairs; mesocarp coriaceous; endocarp with a reticulum of shallow furrows. Dry grassland. E. & E.C. Europe, from S. Bulgaria to c. 55° N. in C. Russia; cultivated for ornament elsewhere and occasionally naturalized. Au Bu Cz Hu Ju Rm Rs (C, W, K, E) [Ga].