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The ‘Jerusaleum cherry’ is widely cultivated as an ornament in gardens for its shiny scarlet-red berries. Sometimes found as an escape in the hills, up to 2200 m.
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Description
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An erect shrub 90-120 cm tall; branches ascending, glabrous. Leaves 40-80 x 10-20 mm, lanceolate to elliptic-ovate, cuneate, decurrent, entire to repand, obtuse. Peduncles 1-3-flowered, axillary or extra-axillary. Flowers white. Calyx teeth triangular to lanceolate, 4-5 mm long, accrescent. Corolla rotate; limb 11-12 mm broad. Berry globose, 8-12 (-15)mm broad, scarlet-red, shiny. Seeds 3 mm broad, subreniform, minutely reticulate-rugose.
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Distribution
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S. America, widely cultivated for ornament and naturalised elsewhere.
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Distribution
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Distribution: Native to S. America.
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Flower/Fruit
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Fl. Per.: May-July, earlier in the plains.
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