| 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 flowers, 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). | |