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    PRUNUS
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    PRUNUS

    Commonly known as Cherry tree

    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.

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    • Good to know
      Grown for attractive white or pink flowers, bark colour, edible fruits, hedging, screening and ground cover
    • Place of origin
      Widely distributed in northern temperate regions, the Andes and mountains of south-east Asia
    • Deciduous
    • Evergreen
    • Tree
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    Varieties

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    • PRUNUS 'Amanogawa'
    Flagpole cherry
    tight columnar habit and dense clusters of semi-double pale pink flowers
     
    H/Std
    £80.00
    PRUNUS avium
    Common wild cherry
    Spreading wild cherry tree
     
    Potgrown
    £11.00
    PRUNUS avium 'Plena'
    Double white flowered form
     
    H/Std
    £80.00
    PRUNUS campanulatus 'Felix Jury'
    Deep pink flowers with yellow stamens
     
    Small
    £30.00
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    H/Std
    £80.00
    PRUNUS 'Collingwood Ingram'
    Small columnar tree with pink flowers in spring
     
    H/Std
    £80.00
    PRUNUS x hillieri 'Spire'
    Conical habit with soft pink flowers in early spring
     
    H/Std
    £80.00
    PRUNUS x incam 'Okamé'
    (incisa x campanulata) - startlingly attractive carmine-red flowers early in the seaon
     
    Also Small
    £25.00
    H/Std
    £80.00
    PRUNUS 'Kanzan'
    The most floriferous of the double pink cherries with vigorous and quick growing habit
     
    H/Std
    £80.00
    PRUNUS 'Kiku-shidare-zakura'
    Deep pink double flowering cherry with weeping habit
     
    H/Std
    £80.00
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    PRUNUS 'Kursar'
    New growth coppery. Single pink flowers. Small tree with spreading habit
     
    H/Std
    £80.00
    PRUNUS 'Pink Perfection'
    One of the most attractive of all the cherries. Bright rosy pink buds opening paler pink, double
     
    H/Std
    £80.00
    PRUNUS 'Royal Burgundy'
    Deep purple young foliage turning bronze in autumn. Double rose-pink flowers
     
    H/Std
    £80.00
    PRUNUS rufa
    Rusty and hairy new shoots and clusters of pale pink flowers. The best aspect of this species is its peeling reddish-brown bark
     
    H/Std
    £80.00
    PRUNUS sargentii
    Pale pink flowers with bronze red young foliage, brilliant autumn colours
     
    H/Std
    £80.00
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    PRUNUS serrula
    Beautiful polished mahogany coloured stems
     
    H/Std
    £80.00
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