Taxonomy

• Kingdom: Plantae
• Clade: Tracheophytes
• Clade: Angiosperms
• Clade: Eudicots
• Clade: Superrosids
• Clade: Rosids
• Clade: Fabids
• Order: Rosales
• Family: Rosaceae
• Subfamily: Amygdaloideae
• Tribe: Amygdaleae
• Genus: Prunus
• Species: Prunus cerasifera f. atropurpurea

Presence

Introduced, not established.

Notes

Form whose leaves and fruits - even immature ones - are dark-purple. Discovered in Persia by Ernest François Pissard (1850-1934), a French gardener, and originally described under the name P. pissardii Carrière, 1881.

Widely planted as an ornamental tree, and marketed as cultivar ‘Pissard’ and derivatives.

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