Scientific Name: Prunus subhirtella 'Pendula Plena Rosea'
Common Name: double weeping Higan cherry
Family Name: Rosaceae
Origin: Garden origin, S.E. Asia / Japan / China
Hardiness Zone: Zone 6: (-23 to -18 °C)
Plant Type: Tree - deciduous
Mature Size: 7 - 10m x 7 - 10m (height x width)
Habit: Arching
Form: Weeping
Texture: Medium
Landscape Uses: Attract beneficial insects, Shade tree, Specimen plant
Exposure: Full sun
Soil or Media: Well-drained
Leaves: Simple, Alternate, Soft flexible, Pinnate venation, Glabrous, Elliptic, Oblanceolate, Ovate, Double serrate
Flowers: Flowers solitary, White, Pink, Apr-May
Fruit: Drupe, Red, Black, Jul
Key ID Features:
Branches weeping; leaves alternate, most blades elliptic, 6-13cm long x 3-5cm wide, margin double serrate with long tips, apex accuminate and tilts sideways; flowers with many pink petals, showy, solitary. Winter ID: buds about 4-5mm long; terminal bud appear clustered with 2-3 lateral buds.