The difference between North China Pearl Plum and Pearl Plum

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1. Appearance difference

2. Differences in leaves

Appearance: The former has smooth and hairless branchlets, which are green when young and turn to reddish brown when old. The branchlets of the latter are pubescent. It is green when young and dark reddish brown or yellowish brown when old. Leaves: The former has 13-21 small leaves, which are lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate. The latter has 11-17 small leaves, which are lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate.

1. Differences in appearance

North China Pearlberry is a shrub, about 3 meters high, with cylindrical branchlets, smooth and hairless. It is green when young and turns to reddish brown when old. Winter buds are oval, reddish-brown, with sharp apex.

Pearl plum is shorter than the former, about 2 meters, and the branch shape is similar to the former, cylindrical, pubescent, green when young, dark reddish brown or yellowish brown when old. Winter buds are oval, purple-brown, with rounded and blunt apex.

2. Differences in leaves< /h2>

North China pearl plum has pinnate compound leaves, with 13-21 leaflets, opposite, lanceolate to oblong-lanceolate, and the stipules are membranous and linear-lanceolate.

Pearl Plum also The leaves are pinnately compound with 11-17 leaflets, which are lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate. The stipules are ovate-lanceolate to triangular-lanceolate.

2. Differences in leaves

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