Keyed Out #114 — Prunus cerasifera

Question 1

Each bloom sets five free, equal petals and a crowd of separate {stamens} on the rim of a shallow cup, the whole flower radially symmetrical.

Accepted Answer

rose family

Question 2

Its simple, finely toothed leaves are set singly up the shoot, and each leaf stalk is flanked at its base by a pair of narrow appendages that soon wither and fall.

Accepted Answer

Rosaceae

Question 3

Its fleshy fruit closes around a single hard stone, rather than around a core divided into several separate seed chambers.

Accepted Answer

Prunus

Question 4

A pair of small raised reddish bumps sits at the top of each leaf stalk, right where the blade begins, seeping nectar well away from any flower.

Accepted Answer

Prunus

Question 5

Its young shoots stay green and hairless and the crown is essentially unarmed, at most a few short stubby spurs, instead of a thicket of stiff blackish downy twigs hardened into long thorns.

Accepted Answer

Prunus cerasifera

Question 6

It breaks into blossom in February, ahead of its own leaves and weeks before the orchard trees around it open a single bud.

Accepted Answer

Prunus cerasifera