Bird Cherry
Prunus padus
- Flowering period
- April–May
- Nectar
- mittel
- Pollen
- mittel
The Bird Cherry flowers in long white racemes in April and May, usually right after blackthorn. Both nectar and pollen value lie in the medium range, but in damp floodplains and along streams it can occur in large numbers and then produce well. It prefers seepage-moist to damp, nutrient- and base-rich, often gravelly-sandy loam and clay soils. For beekeeping it is a typical build-up flow in floodplain forests and field copses.
Sources (5)
- Trachtpflanzen-Katalog Bienenroute: Traubenkirsche
- Bienenweidekatalog Baden-Württemberg, Ministerium für Ernährung, Ländlichen Raum und Verbraucherschutz mit Universität Hohenheim
- Bienenweidepflanzen für den Hausgarten, Bayerische Landesanstalt für Weinbau und Gartenbau (LWG) Veitshöchheim
- Bienenweiden, Hortipendium
- Filipiak, Walczyńska, Denisow, Petanidou, Ziółkowska (2022): Phenology and production of pollen, nectar and sugar in 1612 plant species from various environments