Scientific Name: Prunus (hybrid cvs.)
Common Name: ornamental cherry tree
Family Name: Rosaceae
Origin: Garden origin
Hardiness Zone: Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C)
Plant Type: Tree - deciduous
Mature Size: 7 - 10m x 7 - 10m (height x width)
Habit: Spreading, Upright
Form: Round, Vase
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Attract beneficial insects, Fall interest, Specimen plant, Spring interest
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Lustrous, Lanceolate, Obovate, Ovate, Serrate
Flowers: Flowers solitary, White, Pink, Mar-Apr-May
Fruit: Aborted (hybrids) or absent
Key ID Features:
Deciduous trees mostly wide spreading crowns; leaves ovate, serrated, and with glands near petiole. Winter ID: very prominent horizontal lenticels, brown pointed buds; leaf scars mostly half-round to triangular with 3 bundle scars.