Other names: Gean, Bird cherry, Crab cherry, Hagberry, Merry tree, Sweet cherry, Cheshire merry tree, Mazzard, Suffolk merries, Prunus avium ‘Sweet Cherry’
P. avium is an upright to spreading, deciduous tree with red-banded bark and ovate to oblong, dark green leaves, bronze when young, turning red, orange, and yellow in autumn. Pendent clusters of bowl-shaped, white flowers in mid-spring are followed by small, heart-shaped to ovoid, glossy, dark red fruit.
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10m max. spread |
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20m max. height |
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20-50 years to maturity |
Prunus 'Pandora' (Ornamental cherry 'Pandora')
Other names: 'Pandora' cherry
'Pandora' is a spreading, deciduous, ornamental cherry tree with attractive bronze-red new leaves which turn dark green in summer. It has pale pink flowers in spring.
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5m max. spread |
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5m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Prunus laurocerasus 'Etna' (Cherry laurel 'Etna')
'Etna' is an upright, evergreen, compact shrub with bronze-red new growth, contrasting with the glossy deep-green leaves. It has white flowers in spring.
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2m max. spread |
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2.5m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Prunus 'Sunset Boulevard' (Cherry 'Sunset Boulevard')
Other names: Flowering cherry 'Sunset Boulevard', Ornamental cherry 'Sunset Boulevard'
'Sunset Boulevard' is an upright, broadly oval, deciduous tree with ovate, tapered, toothed, dark green leaves, flushed bronze is spring, turning golden yellow in autumn and clusters of single, cupped, pink-flushed, white flowers in spring.
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5m max. spread |
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10m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Prunus x subhirtella 'Autumnalis Rosea' (Winter flowering cherry 'Autumnalis Rosea')
Other names: Rosebud cherry 'Autumnalis Rosea', Winter cherry
'Autumnalis Rosea' has pink flowers between autumn and spring when the weather is mild.
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8m max. spread |
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8m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Prunus pendula 'Pendula Rubra' (Single pink weeping cherry)
Other names: Prunus x subhirtella 'Pendula Rubra' Prunus
'Pendula Rubra' has rose-pink flowers blossoming from red buds in spring.
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4m max. spread |
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4m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Prunus 'Spire' (Cherry 'Spire')
Other names: Prunus 'Hillieri Spire'
'Spire' is a medium, upright tree that is columnar when young but fans out when mature. It has pink-bronze leaves that turn orange-red in autumn. Single, soft pink flowers bloom in spring.
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8m max. spread |
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12m max. height |
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10 years to maturity |
Prunus 'Taihaku' (Great white cherry)
Other names: Prunus serrulata 'Tai Haku'
'Taihaku' is a mid-sized, deciduous tree with red-bronze young leaves that turn green. It bears white blossom in spring.
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12m max. spread |
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8m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Prunus 'Pink Perfection' (Cherry 'Pink Perfection')
Other names: Prunus serrulata 'Pink Perfection'
'Pink Perfection' is a small, deciduous tree with bronze young leaves that turn green before turning orange in autumn. It has ascending branches and bears pale-pink, double-flowered blossom in late spring.
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8m max. spread |
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8m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
Other names: Prunus serrulata 'Grandiflora'
'Ukon' is a small, vigorous, spreading, deciduous tree with elliptic, tapered, dark green leaves, bronze when young and turning red-brown in autumn. In mid-spring, pink buds open to semi-double, yellow-flushed, white flowers that are sometimes flushed pink.
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12m max. spread |
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8m max. height |
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10-20 years to maturity |
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