Plant: Kwanzan - Cherry Tree
Cherry Tree · Prunus serrulata 'Kwanzan'
Size: 7 gal
Light
Bloom
Mature size
More about this plant
A small to medium flowering cherry, 15 to 25 feet tall and wide, grown for spectacular spring bloom. The Kwanzan selection is upright and vase shaped and carries clusters of deep pink double flowers packed with 20 to 30 petals, each about 1.5 inches across, in late March to April. Leaves are alternate, ovate to lanceolate and serrate, turning gold, copper and red in fall, and small black drupes follow in late summer. It takes full sun to partial shade on moist, well drained loam across a wide pH range, and the reddish mahogany bark with horizontal lenticels is thin and easily damaged.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 25 ft tall and 25 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 5a-8b
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A small to medium flowering cherry, 15 to 25 feet tall and wide, grown for spectacular spring bloom. The Kwanzan selection is upright and vase shaped and carries clusters of deep pink double flowers packed with 20 to 30 petals, each about 1.5 inches across, in late March to April. Leaves are alternate, ovate to lanceolate and serrate, turning gold, copper and red in fall, and small black drupes follow in late summer. It takes full sun to partial shade on moist, well drained loam across a wide pH range, and the reddish mahogany bark with horizontal lenticels is thin and easily damaged.
- Flowers
- The cultivar Kwanzan is upright and vase shaped with clusters of pink double flowers, each blossom packed with 20 to 30 petals and about 1.5 inches wide, opening in late March to April.
- Foliage
- Leaves are alternate and simple, 2 to 5 inches long and 1.25 to 2 inches wide, ovate to lanceolate with serrate margins.
- Bark & stems
- Red brown to gray mahogany bark with horizontal lenticels that make it easy to identify; the bark is thin and easily damaged.
- Native range
- East and South China, Japan, Korea
