| Scientific Name: | Prunus padus |
| Common Name: | European bird cherry |
| Family Name: | Rosaceae |
| Origin: | Central / west Asia, Europe, S.E. Asia / Japan / China |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 4: (-34 to -29 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 10 - 15m x 10 - 15m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Spreading, Upright |
| Form: | Round |
| Texture: | Medium |
| Landscape Uses: | Attract beneficial insects, Specimen plant, Wildlife food |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Elliptic, Obovate, Serrulate |
| Flowers: | Raceme, White, Apr |
| Fruit: | Drupe, Black, Jul-Aug |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Leaves elliptic to obovate, most blades 7-13cm long x 4-7cm wide, margins finely serrate, petioles 2-3cm long, dark red, grooved with 2-4 glands, stipules about 2cm long x 1mm wide; florets white, about 1cm wide, in pendulous racemes 12-18cm long; cherries ripening to black by mid-summer, extremely bitter, <8mm round. Winter ID: twigs glabrous, reddish-brown, lenticels tan elliptical; buds conical, leaf scars crescent shaped to oval. | |