| Scientific Name: | Prunus 'Kanzan' ( syn. P. 'Kwanzan' ) |
| Common Name: | flowering cherry, Kwanzan cherry, Kanzan cherry |
| 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, Specimen plant, Spring interest |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Lustrous, Lanceolate, Ovate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Flowers solitary, Pink, Apr-May |
| Fruit: | Aborted (hybrids) or absent |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Deciduous tree with a wide spreading crown; very prominent creamy-orange, horizontal lenticels; branches come off stem at 45 degree angle; alternate, ovate, serrate leaves with reddish petioles, where petiole joins leaf blade, there are kidney shaped glands; stipules incised, about 2cm long. Winter ID: buds pointed, conical, 8-11mm long, glabrous, brown; leaf scars mostly half-round to triangular with 3 bundle scars (centre one larger). | |