Prunus cornuta, the Himalayan bird cherry, is a species of bird cherry native to the foothills of the Himalayas, including China and the countries of the Indian subcontinent. A medium-sized tree, it can reach 18 m. It is used for a rootstock for sweet cherries in India.[1] Its specific epithet references the "horned" deformation of the fruit seen when a tree is afflicted with the fungal disease pocket plum gall, ascribed to the species Taphrina padi.[citation needed][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Rosaceae |
| Genus: | Prunus |
| Subgenus: | Prunus subg. Padus |
| Species: | P. cornuta
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| Prunus cornuta | |
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References
edit- ^ Singh, R. N.; Randhawa, S. S.; Gupta, P. N. (1971). "Rootstock Performance of Two Wild Species of Cherry Prunus cerasoides and Prunus cornuta in the Nursery". Indian Journal of Horticulture. 28 (3): 196–198. Retrieved 16 July 2018.
- ^ "Prunus cornuta Himalayan Bird Cherry PFAF Plant Database".
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