Sargent Cherry – Prunus sargentii

This specimen is 24 years old

With good fall color and delicate pink blossoms, Sargent cherry is highly recommended for the home and urban landscape.

Growing at a moderate rate into a 25 to 40-foot-high, upright-spreading to rounded tree, Sargent cherry makes an ideal shade tree, spreading as wide as it is tall and casting dense shade below.

Fast-growing and hardy, Sargent cherry offers an outstanding spring floral display and abundant fruit.

In late April or early May the one-inch-wide, pink to deep pink single blooms appear before the new red-tinged leaves unfold. The small, pea-sized fruits which follow are red, ripening to a dark purple in June and July.

Sargent Cherry has outstanding fall color

Family Rosaceae
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