Prunus spinosa

Prunus spinosa
Fruit
Scientific classification
Kinrick:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Rosales
Faimily:	Rosaceae
Genus:	Prunus
Subgenus:	Prunus
Section:	Prunus
Species:	P. spinosa
Binomial name
Prunus spinosa L.

Prunus spinosa ('slae, Bullister or Wine-Tree) is a species o Prunus native tae Europe, wastren Asie, an locally in northwast Africae.

Etymology

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