PRUNUS
PRUNUS
Commonly known as Higan cherry, Rosebud cherry
The family of stone fruits, cherries, peaches, plums, nectarines, apricots, and almonds, and a dazzling array of ornamentals, all within the greater rose family. In Japan sakura zensen (the cherry blossom front) is followed northwards and is a cause of much celebration.
Because cherry flowers bloom en masse and because of their ephemeral nature they can provide one of the best horticultural events of the year when even a modest tree can provide a snowstorm of petals, falling to cover the ground beneath.
Genus of more than 200 species of deciduous or evergreen trees and shrubs widely distributed in northern temperate regions and the mountains of southeastern Asia. Because of their food and ornamental value they have been transported to most parts of the world where some have become naturalised.
UK natives are P. avium, wild cherry, P. padus, bird cherry and P. spinosa, blackthorn or sloe.
Full Plant Details - Sun/Soil & other attributes
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Pests & Diseases
Aphids, caterpillars, peach leaf curl, silver leaf, honey fungus, blossom wilt. -
Place of origin
Japan -
Deciduous
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Shades of pink
All shades of pink through to Carmine (red) -
White
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Height
8m (26ft) -
Spread
8m (26ft)
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FruitPlants which produce an edible or ornamental fruitRed to black fruit.
View Planting Tips and Care Advice
- Introduction
- Long established and widely grown Japanese flowering cherries
- Matsumae cherries
- Flowering cherries with other attributes
- Pruning drooping branches - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Pruning overlapping branches - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Prunus 'Okame', 'Kursar' & conradinae - Video Tip ondemand_video
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