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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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Deciduous
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Evergreen
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Tree
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Zero Rated ItemNo VAT on this plantEdible fruited species
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Additional Features
Good to knowGrown for attractive white or pink flowers, bark colour, edible fruits, hedging, screening and ground cover
Place of originWidely distributed in northern temperate regions, the Andes and mountains of south-east Asia
- 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
- Growing laurels
- Annual Pruning Laurel Hedge - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Hard Pruning Laurel Hedge - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Laurel hedging over the years - Video Tip ondemand_video
- How to plant a tree - Video Tip ondemand_video
- How to plant a tree
- Ties - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Restaking fallen young trees - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Fallen old tree - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Clearing up fallen beech tree - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Spring pruning - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing side shoots - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Pruning and Shaping Magnolia - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Deer protection - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Weed Spraying - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing Ivy - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing wire protection - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Tree Survey - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Crown uplift - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing shoots below graft - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Removing peeling bark - Video Tip ondemand_video
- Maintaining variegation - Video Tip ondemand_video
Buy Varieties of PRUNUS
FLOWERING CHERRIES
PRUNUS 'Shirofugen'
pink in bud, changing to blush white, double
PRUNUS 'Shirotae'
(Mount Fuji) - large single or semi-double fragrant white flowers
PRUNUS 'Shosar'
clear pink flowers and excellent autumn colour. Fastigiate habit
PRUNUS x subhirtella 'Autumnalis'
white flowers, in flushes, between autumn and spring
PRUNUS x subhirtella 'Autumnalis Rosea'
pink flowering 'Autumn Cherry'
PRUNUS 'Tai Haku'
large single white flowers
PRUNUS 'Ukon'
semi-double, pale greenish white flowers
MATSUMAE FLOWERING CHERRIES
PRUNUS 'Daikoku'
a vase-shaped tree with 34-36 petals in each double pink flower
PRUNUS 'Gyoiko'
bronze new leaves and cream or green double flowers
PRUNUS 'Hokusai'
pink buds opening semi-double white, highly scented
PRUNUS 'Horinji'
large single or semi-double white flowers with a hint of pink
PRUNUS 'Ichiyo'
(Pink Champagne) - pale pink double flowers with a leaf-like carpel in the centre of the flowers. Orange-red autumn colour
PRUNUS 'Matsumae-beni-murasaki'
(Candy Floss) - fragrant huge pink semi-double flowers turning light pink and white
PRUNUS 'Matsumae-beni-yutaka'
very fragrant large white double flowers turning soft pink with age
PRUNUS 'Matsumae-fuki'
(Chocolate Ice) - an umbrella-shaped tree with large semi-double or single white flowers with a pink flush
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