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{{Short description|Species of flowering plant}}
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| taxon = Prunus gentryi
|status = LC
|status_system = IUCN3.1
|status_ref = <ref name="iucn status 19 November 2021">{{cite iucn |author=Fuentes, A.C.D. |author2=Martínez Salas, E. |author3=Samain, M.-S. |date=2021 |title=''Prunus gentryi'' |volume=2021 |page=e.T126593175A126598016 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T126593175A126598016.en |access-date=19 November 2021}}</ref>
| authority = [[Paul Carpenter Standley|Standl.]]
}}

'''''Prunus gentryi''''' is a species of wild [[cherry]] in the genus ''[[Prunus]]'', family [[Rosaceae]], native to the Mexican states of [[Chihuahua (state)|Chihuahua]] and [[Sonora]]. It grows along streambanks in mountainous regions of the [[Sierra Madre Occidental]].<ref>Gentry, H.S. 1942. Rio Mayo plants. Carnegie Institute of Washington Publication 537.</ref><ref>Laferrière, Joseph E. 1994. Vegetation and flora of the Mountain Pima village of [[Nabogame]], Chihuahua, Mexico. Phytologia 77:102-140.</ref> The scientific description was published in 1937.<ref>{{cite journal|author=Paul C. Standley|journal=Publication. Field Museum of Natural History. Botanical Series|volume=17|issue=2|pages=155–224|year=1937|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/19729#page/50/mode/1up|title=Studies of American Plants - VII (description on pages 194–195)}}</ref><ref>[http://www.tropicos.org/name/50048796 Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. Accessed 15 Dec 2013]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://plants.jstor.org/stable/10.5555/al.ap.specimen.uc582261|title=Isotype of Prunus gentryi Standl. &#91;family ROSACEAE&#93;}}</ref>

== Description ==
''Prunus gentryi'' is a tree up to {{Convert|12|m|abbr=off}} tall. The [[leaves]] are thick and leathery, dark green above and lighter below. The fruits are juicy and edible, generally purple although a yellow-fruited form, ''Prunus gentryi'' forma ''flavipulpa'', is known from the State of Chihuahua.<ref>Felger et al. 2001. Trees of Sonora, Mexico. Oxford University Press.</ref><ref>[https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13789064#page/64/mode/1up Laferrière, Joseph E. 1989 A yellow-fruited form of ''Prunus gentryi'' (Rosaceae). Phytologia 65(6):482.]</ref>

==Uses==

The Mountain Pima (= [[Pima Bajo people|Pima Bajo]]) of the region near Yepachic, Chihuahua, call the tree and its fruits "aguasiqui." The fruits are a prized food, ripening in late summer.<ref>Laferrière, Joseph E., Charles W. Weber and Edwin A. Kohlhepp. 1991. Use and nutritional composition of some traditional Mountain Pima plant foods. Journal of Ethnobiology 11(1):93-114.</ref>

==References==
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==External links==
*[http://www.tropicos.org/ImageFullView.aspx?imageid=18320 photo herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Chihuahua in 1936, isotype of ''Prunus gentryi'']
*[http://www.tropicos.org/ImageFullView.aspx?imageid=22201 photo of herbarium specimen at Missouri Botanical Garden, collected in Chihuahua in 1988, isotype of forma ''flavipulpa'', including color photo of fresh fruits]

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[[Category:Prunus|gentryi]]
[[Category:Plants described in 1937]]
[[Category:Flora of Chihuahua (state)]]
[[Category:Flora of Sonora]]


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