محلب

الوصف النباتي

الأوراق

Leaves: Elongate-ovate, tapering to a more or less pointed tip, sometimes slightly heart-shaped at the base, with fine, inconspicuous teeth.

الأزهار

Inflorescence & flowers: White flowers in simple, convex clusters.

الثمار والبذور

Fruit: Small, ovate drupe, 5–6 mm long, often with a short point, red to black.

مواسم النبات

الفنلوجية

Phenology: Flowering April–June.

الانتشار الموثق

Lebanese distribution: Near Douma, near Chahtoul, Jabal Barouk, Ehden forest, Ammiq and Sannine.

Native range: Albania, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, East Aegean Is., France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iran, Iraq, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan, Krym, Lebanon-Syria, Morocco, North Caucasus, NW. Balkan Pen., Pakistan, Portugal, Romania, Sicilia, Spain, Switzerland, Tadzhikistan, Transcaucasus, Turkmenistan, Türkiye, Türkiye-in-Europe, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.

Introduced into: Alaska, Argentina Northeast, Argentina South, Arkansas, Baltic States, British Columbia, California, Central European Russia, Connecticut, Czechia-Slovakia, Delaware, Denmark, District of Columbia, East European Russia, Great Britain, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Missouri, Montana, Netherlands, New Jersey, New Mexico, New South Wales, New York, North Carolina, Norway, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Sweden, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin.

لمحة نباتية

بنية النبات

Life-form & habit: Shrub or small tree, 2–4 m tall in Mouterde's treatment, with numerous spreading branches.

الفصيلة والتصنيف

الاسم العلمي المقبول

Prunus mahaleb

الفصيلة

وردية

نباتات من الفصيلة نفسها

Amelanchier parviflora

لوز مر

Amygdalus korschinskii

Crataegus × sinaica

Potentilla geranioides subsp. syriaca