| Scientific Name: | Prunus 'Shirotae' |
| Common Name: | Mount Fuji cherry |
| Family Name: | Rosaceae |
| Origin: | Garden origin |
| Hardiness Zone: | Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C) |
| Plant Type: | Tree - deciduous |
| Mature Size: | 5 - 7m x 7 - 10m (height x width) |
| Habit: | Arching, Horizontal, Spreading |
| Form: | Oval - horizontal |
| Texture: | Medium - coarse |
| Landscape Uses: | Accent plant, Attract beneficial insects, Fall interest, Shade tree, Specimen plant, Spring interest, Street (boulevard tree) |
| Exposure: | Full sun |
| Soil or Media: | Acidic, Humus rich, Well-drained |
| Leaves: | Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Glabrous, Distinctive smell, Obovate, Ovate, Ciliate, Serrate |
| Flowers: | Flowers clustered, White, Mar-Apr |
| Fruit: | Aborted (hybrids) or absent |
| Key ID Features: | |
| Flat-topped tree with horizontal branching; lenticels prominent on newer growth; leaf blades ovate to obovate, most 11-15cm long x 5-7cm wide, sharp-pointed tailed apex (accuminate-caudate), margins double-serrate, 2(-4) glands on each petiole; flowers white and emerging before leaves expand. Winter ID: twigs reddish-brown, glabrous, round protruding lenticels; buds ovoid, 5mm long, about 10 spirally arranged scales; leaf scars mostly half-round to triangular with 3 bundle scars. | |