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Fam:   Leguminose Juss. (Fabaceae)
Genus:   Cercis L.
English Name: Redbuds

Description:

Trees or bushes without thorns. Leaves simple, with palmate veins. Stipule flaked or tunicates, small, drop off. Flowers in cluster bundles on the stem and older branches of three years (kauliflory). Calyx bell-shaped, correct, with 5 equal, shorter than the tube tab. Corolla pink or purple, incorrectly, 5 leaflets, above 3 significantly smaller than the lower 2. The stamens 10, free. Ovary goal. Beans elongated, strongly laterally flattened, elliptical cross section closely, with many seeds, goal more or less splits are, with narrow wing belly seam. The seeds back ovoid or elliptical, smooth. Pollinating insects are propagated by seed.

Table for determining the types 1    Leaves on the top blunt or cut .................................................................................................................................................. - C.siliquastrum L. 1* Leaves short sharp .................................................................................................................................................................... * C. canadensis L. ¹ developed by B. Kouzmanov From „Флора на НР България”, том VI, БАН, София, (1976)

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Cercis /ˈsɜːrsᵻs/,[4] is a genus of about 10 species in the subfamily Caesalpinioideae of the pea family Fabaceae,[2] native to warm temperate regions. It contains small deciduous trees or large shrubs commonly known as redbuds.[5] They are characterised by simple, rounded to heart-shaped leaves and pinkish-red flowers borne in the early spring on bare leafless shoots, on both branches and trunk ("cauliflory"). Cercis is derived from the Greek word κερκις (kerkis) meaning "weaver's shuttle", which was applied by Theophrastus to C. siliquastrum.[6]
Cercis species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Mouse Moth (recorded on Eastern Redbud).The bark of C. chinensis has been used in Chinese medicine as an antiseptic.[7]
Cercis fossils have been found that date to the Eocene.[8]

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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References: „Флора на НР България”, том VI, БАН, София, (1976), Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Distribution in Bulgaria: (Conspectus of the Bulgarian Vascular Flora) = conspectus&gs_l= Zlc.
Distribution:

SPECIES:

Cercis siliquastrum L. - Judas tree or Judas-tree

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