Plant: Pink Weeping Cherry Tree
Cherry Tree · Prunus x subhirtella 'Pendula'
Size: 15 gal
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More about this plant
A weeping flowering cherry from Japan, grafted and growing 15 to 40 feet tall with long thin pendulous stems. Single or double light pink flowers hang in pendulous umbels before the leaves in early spring, the glossy dark green leaves turn gold and yellow in fall, and small glossy red fruits mature to black in summer. It grows quickly in full sun to partial shade on moist, well drained clay, loam or sand and tolerates heat, compaction, dry soil and poor soil, which suits it to a lawn specimen or focal point.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 40 ft tall and 25 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 5a-8b
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
A weeping flowering cherry from Japan, grafted and growing 15 to 40 feet tall with long thin pendulous stems. Single or double light pink flowers hang in pendulous umbels before the leaves in early spring, the glossy dark green leaves turn gold and yellow in fall, and small glossy red fruits mature to black in summer. It grows quickly in full sun to partial shade on moist, well drained clay, loam or sand and tolerates heat, compaction, dry soil and poor soil, which suits it to a lawn specimen or focal point.
- Flowers
- Single or double light pink flowers hang in pendulous clusters and appear before the leaves in early spring.
- Foliage
- Dark green, shiny, simple, alternate leaves, ovate to lanceolate to oblong-ovate, with doubly serrate margins.
- Fruit
- Glossy red ovoid fruits about a third of an inch across mature to black.
- Bark & stems
- Single trunk, copper with lenticels, gray plates exfoliating as it ages.
- Pruning
- The weeping branches can be pruned shorter.
- Native range
- Japan
