Prunus cerasus

Deciduous shrub or small tree to c. 8 m high, often suckering; young twigs glabrous. Leaves elliptic to ovate or obovate, mostly 4–8 cm long, 1.5–4 cm wide, base obtuse or rounded, apex acute to acuminate, margins crenate-serrate, glabrous, usually  with a few hairs below; petiole 5–30 mm long, glabrous. Flowers in clusters of 2–6 on short lateral shoots, appearing with or before the leaves; pedicles 10–35 mm long, glabrous. Sepals rounded, glabrous, margins glandular; petals suborbicular, white. Drupe depressed-globose, 13–20 mm diam., glabrous, bright red, flesh sour; stone subglobose, smooth. Flowers spring.