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Cercis siliquastrum (Judas-tree; Judas Tree; Arbol De Judea; Arbre de Judee; Nandumbus)

Synonyms: Cercis florida; Siliquastrum orbicularis
Language: Russian; Turkmenian

Wikipedia Abstract

Cercis siliquastrum, commonly known as the Judas tree or Judas-tree, is a small deciduous tree from Southern Europe and Western Asia which is noted for its prolific display of deep pink flowers in spring.
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Infraspecies

Cercis siliquastrum hebecarpa
Cercis siliquastrum siliquastrum
Cercis siliquastrum yaltirikii

Attributes

Air Quality Improvement [1]  Low
Allergen Potential [1]  Medium
Carbon Capture [1]  Low
Shade Percentage [1]  80 %
Temperature Reduction [1]  Low
Wind Reduction [1]  Low
Bee Flower Color [2]  Blue
Flower Color [2]  Pink
Edible [3]  May be edible. See the Plants For A Future link below for details.
Flower Type [3]  Hermaphrodite
Leaf Type [3]  Deciduous
Pollinators [3]  Bees
Specific Gravity [4]  0.602
Structure [3]  Tree
Usage [3]  Wood - very hard, beautifully grained, takes a very fine polish. Used for veneers;
Height [3]  39 feet (12 m)
Width [3]  33 feet (10 m)
Hardiness Zone Minimum [1]  USDA Zone: 6 Low Temperature: -10 F° (-23.3 C°) → 0 F° (-17.8 C°)
Hardiness Zone Maximum [1]  USDA Zone: 9 Low Temperature: 20 F° (-6.7 C°) → 30 F° (-1.1 C°)
Water Use [1]  Moderate
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Protected Areas

Name IUCN Category Area acres Location Species Website Climate Land Use
Appennino Lucano, Valle Agri, Monte Sirino, Monte Raparo 90310 Italy  
Gravine di Matera 16536 Italy  
Is-Simar (l/o San Pawl il-Bahar) 144 Malta  
Luberon Regional Nature Park V 406572 France  
Parco Del Somma-Vesuvio e Miglio D'Oro National Park II 33648 Italy

Predators

Providers

Pollinated by 
Xylocopa appendiculata[8]

External References

USDA Plant Profile

Citations

Attributes / relations provided by
♦ 1i-Tree Species v. 4.0, developed by the USDA Forest Service's Northern Research Station and SUNY-ESF using the Horticopia, Inc. plant database.
♦ 2Arnold SEJ, Faruq S, Savolainen V, McOwan PW, Chittka L, 2010 FReD: The Floral Reflectance Database — A Web Portal for Analyses of Flower Colour. PLoS ONE 5(12): e14287.
♦ 3Plants For A Future licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License
♦ 4Chave J, Coomes D, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Swenson NG, Zanne AE (2009) Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Ecology Letters 12: 351-366. Zanne AE, Lopez-Gonzalez G, Coomes DA, Ilic J, Jansen S, Lewis SL, Miller RB, Swenson NG, Wiemann MC, Chave J (2009) Data from: Towards a worldwide wood economics spectrum. Dryad Digital Repository.
♦ 5Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
♦ 6New Zealand Institute for Plant & Food Research Plant-SyNZ™ database
♦ 7Ben-Dov, Y., Miller, D.R. & Gibson, G.A.P. ScaleNet 4 November 2009
♦ 8Jorrit H. Poelen, James D. Simons and Chris J. Mungall. (2014). Global Biotic Interactions: An open infrastructure to share and analyze species-interaction datasets. Ecological Informatics.
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0