Prunus spinosa

Prunus spinosa (slae, Bullister or 'Wine-Tree) is a species o Prunus native tae Europe, wastren Asie, an locally in northwast Africae.Rushforth, K. (1999). Trees of Britain and Europe. Collins ISBN 0-00-220013-9.Den Virtuella Floran: Prunus spinosa map

Etymology
The wird "slae" comes frae Auld Inglis  - the same wird is notit in Middle Law German (historically spoken in Lawer Saxony), Middle Dutch  or contractit form  (frae which come Modren Law German wirds: , , an Modren Dutch ), Auld Hiech German ,  (frae which come Modren German . Aw these come frae Common Germanic ruit *. Cf. West Slavic / Polish  plum o ony species, includin sloe  – ruit present in ither Slavic leids, e.g. Serbo-Croatie  /  an likely tae be an early borraein intae Proto-Indo-European frae the leids o pre-Indo-European population o Europe.)

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Category:Flora o Europe
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Category:Plants descrived in 1753