Review article

Taxonomic Determination of Marasca Cherry (Prunus Cerasus var. marasca)

Anđelko Vrsaljko ; Sveučilište u Zadru, Zadar, Hrvatska

Abstract

This paper gives a brief overview of the taxonomic determination of the marasca cherry (Prunus Cerasus var. Marasca), as a particularly valuable fruit species of Dalmatia. We set forth the disputes between botanists, pomologists and dendrologists who cannot agree on whether marasca can be seen as a separate species, a subtype of sour cherry or sour cherry itself. Looking at its genus in the narrow sense of the word, it can be categorized within the genus of Cerasus, but here lies another controversy because we have no clear differentiation within the maraska species in quality clones that could be subsumed under separate cultivars. Today the most inveterate and we believe the most accurate taxonomic classification is the one that defines it as a subspecies of sour cherry known as Prunus Cerasus var. Marasca

Keywords

Marasca Cherry; taxonomy; genus; subgenus; species

Hrčak ID:

69056

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/69056

Publication date:

2.4.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

Visits: 2.877 *