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: Cyme, Pink, Apr-May
Fruit: Aborted (hybrids) or absent
Key ID Features:
Leaves alternate, most blades ovate, 10-16cm long x 4-7cm wide, margins serrate with long tips, petioles 1.5-3.5cm long, reddish with 2-4 wart-like glands near the leaf base, stipules incised, ~2cm long; cymes with 2-5 florets, each 2-3cm wide and with 20-30 petals, pedicels 2-5cm long. Winter ID: deciduous tree with a wide spreading crown and branches come off stem at 45 degree angle; bark with very prominent creamy-orange, horizontal lenticels; buds pointed, conical, 8-11mm long, glabrous, brown; leaf scars mostly half-round to triangular with 3 bundle scars (centre one larger).