Prunus leveilleanaKoehne

WFO wfo-0001017529 Accepted WFO 2026-06 4 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–d · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, 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 leveilleana, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. a Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / 2018-05-27 / obs. 18711229
Prunus leveilleana, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. b Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18711185
Prunus leveilleana, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. c Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18711236
Prunus leveilleana, photographed by Marco Mussita
fig. d Marco Mussita, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 18711234

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Native range 5 botanical countries

Regions where Prunus leveilleana is native: China North-Central, China Southeast, Japan, Korea, Manchuria China North-CentralChina SoutheastJapanManchuria Korea
Native distribution of Prunus leveilleana, 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. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
China North-Central CHN ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Japan JAP
Korea KOR
Manchuria CHM

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 69 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 jamasakura f. pubescens (Makino) H.Ohba
  • Cerasus leveilleana (Koehne) H.Ohba
  • Cerasus leveilleana f. intermedia (Nakai) H.Ohba
  • Cerasus leveilleana f. norioi (Ohwi) H.Ohba
  • Cerasus leveilleana f. pendula (H.Hara) H.Ohba
  • Cerasus leveilleana f. pubipes (H.Hara) H.Ohba & S.Akiyama
  • Cerasus serrulata var. pubescens (Makino) T.T.Yu & C.L.Li
  • Cerasus tenuiflora (Koehne) Kovalev & Kostina
  • Cerasus verecunda (Koidz.) Kovalev & Kostina
  • Cerasus verecunda (Koidz.) H.Ohba
  • Cerasus verecunda f. pendula (H.Hara) H.Ohba
  • Cerasus verecunda f. pubipes (H.Hara) H.Ohba
  • Prunus donarium subsp. verecunda (Koidz.) Koidz.
  • Prunus donarium var. pubescens (Makino) Koidz.
  • Prunus donarium var. tomentella Nakai
  • Prunus jamasakura f. pubescens (Makino) Ohwi
  • Prunus jamasakura subvar. pubescens (Makino) Koidz.
  • Prunus jamasakura var. pubescens (Makino) Nakai
  • Prunus jamasakura var. verecunda Koidz.
  • Prunus leveilleana f. norioi Ohwi
  • Prunus leveilleana var. pendula Nakai ex T.Kawamoto
  • Prunus leveilleana var. semiplena (Nakai ex T.Mori) T.B.Lee
  • Prunus leveilleana var. semiplena (Nakai ex T.Mori) T.B.Lee
  • Prunus leveilleana var. sontagiae (Koehne) Nakai

and 45 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.