Prunus incisaThunb.

WFO wfo-0001017434 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 2 observations

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 2 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Prunus incisa, photographed by WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁
fig. a WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁, CC BY 4.0 / 2021-03-23 / obs. 117078531
Prunus incisa, photographed by WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁
fig. b WATANABE Hitoshi 渡辺仁, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 117078543
Prunus incisa, photographed by Alan Prather
fig. c Alan Prather, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 119836325
Prunus incisa, photographed by Alan Prather
fig. d Alan Prather, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120591890
Prunus incisa, photographed by Alan Prather
fig. e Alan Prather, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120591901
Prunus incisa, photographed by Alan Prather
fig. f Alan Prather, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120591906
Prunus incisa, photographed by Alan Prather
fig. g Alan Prather, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120591911
Prunus incisa, photographed by Alan Prather
fig. h Alan Prather, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 120591918

Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.

Native range 1 botanical country

Regions where Prunus incisa is native: Japan Japan
Native distribution of Prunus incisa, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Japan JAP ASIA-TEMPERATE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Also published as 38 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Cerasus incisa (Thunb.) Loisel.
  • Cerasus incisa f. chrysantha H.Ohba
  • Cerasus incisa f. globosa (Kawas.) H.Ohba
  • Cerasus incisa f. plena (Satomi) H.Ohba
  • Cerasus incisa f. urceolata (Koidz.) H.Ohba
  • Cerasus incisa f. yamadei (Makino) H.Ohba
  • Cerasus incisa var. bukosanensis (Honda) H.Ohba
  • Cerasus incisa var. kinkiensis (Koidz.) H.Ohba
  • Microcerasus incisa (Thunb.) M.Roem.
  • Prunus incisa f. albiflora Sugim.
  • Prunus incisa f. bellura (Kawas.) Sugim.
  • Prunus incisa f. fujiensis M.Hiroe
  • Prunus incisa f. fujipedis Sugim.
  • Prunus incisa f. globosa (Kawas.) Sugim.
  • Prunus incisa f. kamoana H.Kubota
  • Prunus incisa f. micrantha Sugim.
  • Prunus incisa f. plena S.Matsuura
  • Prunus incisa f. plena (Satomi) Sugim.
  • Prunus incisa f. plenissima S.Watan.
  • Prunus incisa f. plenissima Sugim.
  • Prunus incisa f. serrata (Koidz.) E.H.Wilson
  • Prunus incisa f. tokinosu Sugim.
  • Prunus incisa f. urceolata (Koidz.) H.Hara
  • Prunus incisa f. viridicalyx Satomi

and 14 more.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.