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The floodplain island terraces are dominated by willow Salix spp., rowan Sorbus aucuparia, blackcurrant Ribes nigrum and bird cherry Prunus padus.
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Sphagnum bogs and forests of poplar Populus suavolens and the monotypic willow Chosenia arbutifolia occupy low-lying areas, with a relict species, the Siberian apple Malus pallasiana, while river valleys contain bird cherry Prunus padus, rowan S. sibirica and alder Alnus fruticosa.
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The other species of cherry is the bird-cherry (_Cerasus padus_), a pretty little smooth-branched tree, with doubly-serrate, acute leaves, and beautiful white blossoms, which grow in long-shaped racemes, hanging in pendulous clusters, and forming an elegant ornament to the hedges and woods in May.
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852 Various 1841
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The Phalaena pardilla, which feeds on the Prunus padus.
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures Charles Babbage 1831
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Besides the trees above-mentioned, Krascheninnikoff relates, that the larch grows on the banks of the river Kamtschatka, and of those that fall into it, but no where else; and that there are firs in the neighbourhood of the river Berezowa; that there is likewise the service-tree (_padus foliis annuis_;) and two species of the white thorn, one bearing a red, the other
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Nam etfi negavero, nec jus imperii finiftra eft, cum alii haberi poflint qui id facere jufli non recula - bunt, neque id recufo qupd & c6f'e padus fum.
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and to illustrate why she considers it a "no brainer" she opens her book and shows me a photograph by Jonathan Buckley of a single leaf of bird cherry Prunus padus 'Colorata' taken in autumn.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011
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(_Prunus padus_, L.), and the Siberian pine (_Pinus sibirica_,
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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£r cum ceteris padus Hifpams, qudm folos | perituros effe.
Titi Livii Patavini Historiarum ab urbe condita libri qui supersunt xxxv Lallemand, Jean Nicolas, ed 1775
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