Prunus avium - Wild Cherry
Wild cherry or gean grows throughout Europe reaching heights of 20 meters. Naturally it can be spotted growing in beech woods.
Cylindrical trunk, shiny, purple-grey with a bumpy texture, grows in rings and is stripped horizontally.
Flowers grow on long stalks, are cup shaped and bloom in small clusters. The blossoming starts in April.
Flowers still in a bud shape burst through into life.
The leaves appear in April roughly at the same time as the flowers, they start off with a bronze colour eventually turning green and hang from their base, they are simple entire leaves with a pointy tip and toothed edges.
Branches are curved and knobbly.
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