Rosaceae

=Family description=
 * Shrubs and trees** with no exudate, sometimes with thorns.
 * Leaves** alternate, spiral, simple to compound, often with toothed margin, some genera with glands near petiole attachment. Stipules present.
 * Flowers** regular, usually bisexual, flower base thickened and cup shaped, usually 5 free petals, and stamens 5-many, enclosing the fruit, 2-4 styles terminal, free or fused at the base, ovary superior or inferior.
 * Fruits** drupe like with several seeds or berries.

=General info=
 * Distribution** Worldwide, but mostly northern temperate regions, 2850 species.
 * Ecology** Not very common, usually in forest understorey to canopy (trees) or in open secondary scrub (climbers and shrubs). More common at higher elevations.
 * Uses** Edible fruits, ornamentals.
 * Similar to** Chrysobalanaceae but these differ by always being trees, bilateral symmetric flowers and an excentric style. Symplocaceae but these miss stipules. Saxifragaceae but these usually miss the stipules.

=Treated genera=
 * Eriobotrya
 * Prunus

Eriobotrya japonica

Prunus arborea