Bird cherry
Prunus padus L.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- —
- wide
- 6.0 m
Rosaceae
Also called European bird cherry, Hackberry, Bird Cherry, Birdcherry
Formerly Cerasus padus, Druparia padus, Padus avium
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Temp. Eurasia, MoroccoKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from RHS, one source
- Spread
- 4.0 m to 8.0 mRead from RHS, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from RHS, one source
- Flowers
- WhiteRead from Wikipedia, one source
- Coldest it survives
- -20 °C (USDA zone 6b)Read from RHS, one source
Not known yet: height, heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Portuguese
- pado, azereiro-dos-danados
- root
- hackberry, ezo-no-uwamizu-zakura, Թխենի
- Finnish
- tuomi, lehtotuomi
- Russian
- Черёмуха обыкновенная
- Korean
- 귀룽나무
- French
- cerisier à grappes, merisier à grappes
- Swedish
- hägg
- Polish
- czeremcha zwyczajna
- Czech
- střemcha obecná
- Lithuanian
- Paprastoji ieva
- Estonian
- harilik toomingas, toomingas
- Danish
- almindelig hæg
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- RHS, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-25, Public domain
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Prunus padus (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.