Plant: Autumnalis - Cherry Tree
Cherry Tree · Prunus x subhirtella 'Autumnalis'
Size: 15 gal
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More about this plant
A deciduous grafted flowering cherry growing 20 to 40 feet tall and 15 to 30 feet wide with slender pendulous branchlets and a rounded, wide spreading crown. Rose colored buds open to soft pink single to semi double flowers that fade nearly white, carried in corymbs and appearing in fall and warm spells of winter as well as in spring. Ovoid red fruits less than an inch across mature to black. It grows in full sun to partial shade on well drained soil, is frequently browsed by deer, and its wood splits easily in wind or ice.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 40 ft tall and 30 ft wide
- Blooms in fall, winter, spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 4a-8b
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A deciduous grafted flowering cherry growing 20 to 40 feet tall and 15 to 30 feet wide with slender pendulous branchlets and a rounded, wide spreading crown. Rose colored buds open to soft pink single to semi double flowers that fade nearly white, carried in corymbs and appearing in fall and warm spells of winter as well as in spring. Ovoid red fruits less than an inch across mature to black. It grows in full sun to partial shade on well drained soil, is frequently browsed by deer, and its wood splits easily in wind or ice.
- Flowers
- Rose colored buds open to soft pink single to semi double flowers that fade to almost white.
- Foliage
- Leaves are simple, alternate and ovate to lanceolate, bearing two or more large wart like glands at the petiole apex.
- Fruit
- Ovoid stone fruits less than an inch across are red and mature to black.
