Autumn Blooming Higan Cherry Prunus x subhirtella 'Autumnalis'
Other Common Name(s):
Previously known as:
- Prunus x subhirtella var. autumnalis
- Phonetic Spelling
- PROO-nis sub-HIR-tel-uh au-tum-NAL-is
- Description
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Weeping Higan Cherry is a deciduous, grafted small tree that grows up to 40' tall. It has ascending branches, slender branchlets, and is pendulous and scabrate. This plant is commonly grafted on Prunus avium rootstock. This plant has no good fall color. Several cultivars of this species are pendulous and part of the Pendula Group of cultivars including: 'Pendula', 'Io Sakura', 'Shidare Higan', 'Pendula Plena Rosea', 'Yae-shidare-higan', 'Pendula Rosea', and 'Plena Rubra'. This plant is the most cold, heat, and stress tolerant cherry. It is easy to transplant and casts light shade. Wood splits easily with wind or ice and it is not smog tolerant. This tree is frequently damaged by deer. It also has viral and fungal disease problems and is susceptible to bores and scale.
Form: Rounded crown; upright branching; wide spreading
Growth Rate: Moderate to rapid
Quick ID Hints:
- Deciduous weeping tree with pink spring flowers
- Leaves with large wart-like glands on petiole & blade margin
- Twigs andpetiole scabrate
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Attributes:
- Genus:
- Prunus
- Species:
- subhirtella
- Family:
- Rosaceae
- Life Cycle:
- Woody
- Dimensions:
- Height: 20 ft. 0 in. - 40 ft. 0 in.
- Width: 15 ft. 0 in. - 30 ft. 0 in.
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Whole Plant Traits:
- Plant Type:
- Perennial
- Tree
- Woody Plant Leaf Characteristics:
- Deciduous
- Habit/Form:
- Rounded
- Spreading
- Growth Rate:
- Medium
- Texture:
- Medium
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Cultural Conditions:
- Light:
- Full sun (6 or more hours of direct sunlight a day)
- Partial Shade (Direct sunlight only part of the day, 2-6 hours)
- Soil Drainage:
- Good Drainage
- Available Space To Plant:
- 12-24 feet
- USDA Plant Hardiness Zone:
- 4a, 4b, 5a, 5b, 6a, 6b, 7a, 7b, 8a, 8b
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Fruit:
- Fruit Color:
- Black
- Red/Burgundy
- Fruit Value To Gardener:
- Showy
- Fruit Type:
- Drupe
- Fruit Length:
- < 1 inch
- Fruit Width:
- < 1 inch
- Fruit Description:
- Stone fruits are ovoid, less than an inch in diameter, and are red maturing to black.
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Flowers:
- Flower Color:
- Pink
- White
- Flower Inflorescence:
- Corymb
- Flower Value To Gardener:
- Showy
- Flower Bloom Time:
- Fall
- Spring
- Winter
- Flower Petals:
- 4-5 petals/rays
- Flower Description:
- Flowers in fall, winter during warm spells, and early spring; rose colored buds open to soft pink single to semi-double flowers fading to almost white. Inflorescence is a congested corymb, pedicels are elongated, rachis is very short and gives the appearance of an umbel.
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Leaves:
- Woody Plant Leaf Characteristics:
- Deciduous
- Leaf Color:
- Green
- Leaf Type:
- Simple
- Leaf Arrangement:
- Alternate
- Leaf Shape:
- Lanceolate
- Oblong
- Ovate
- Leaf Margin:
- Doubly Serrate
- Serrate
- Hairs Present:
- No
- Leaf Description:
- Leaves are simple, alternate, ovate to lanceolate to oblong-ovate, acuminate, cuneate, and serrate to doubly serrate. Petioles are short, scabrate, bearing two or more large wart-like glands on the petiole apex, or more glands in intact with the blade base or on the blade margin near the base.
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Stem:
- Stem Is Aromatic:
- No
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Landscape:
- Design Feature:
- Flowering Tree
- Small Tree
- Problems:
- Problem for Cats
- Problem for Dogs
- Problem for Horses
