Day 186: When a friend first asked me to identify this common shrub, I was confused and didn't understand what she meant. I thought she might have been referring to Chokecherry or even to Ninebark, but neither of them was in bloom at the time. "You know, you see it all along the side of the road," she insisted, so I went for a drive and discovered that indeed, its very commonness had led me to take it entirely for granted. "Oh, that!" I said as I moved in for a close-up view of the flowers. I took pictures, and as soon as I got home, sat down with the plant manuals because other than being able to tell it was a Prunus of some sort, I had no clue which one. As it turned out, it was Prunus cerasifera, also known as Cherry-plum, a favourite with birds. For that reason, I have yet to see the fruit because they get there first.
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