Japanese cherry
Prunus serrulata Lindl.
- light
- Sun–part
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 8.0 m
- wide
- 6.1 m
Rosaceae
Also called Japanese Cherry, Flowering Cherry, Japanese Hill Cherry, Japanese flowering cherry, Oriental Cherry
Formerly Cerasus maeda, Cerasus serrulata, Padus serrulata, Prunus angustissima, and 3 more
When it flowers
Not known yet in the tropics: too few flowering observations to read a season from.
Read from iNaturalist photographs of it in flower. A month counts at 50% of the best month's flowering share (smoothed over three months) and 10% of its flowering count, from at least 100 flowering observations in the band.
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Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- E. & S. China to N. KoreaKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun to part shade (3 h or more)Read from NC State Extension, one source
- Height
- 6.2 m to 9.8 mRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked: the middle of what its sources sayHalfway between its 2 sources, which differ. Sources differ: NC State Extension 15–25 ft; Wikipedia 7.9–11.9 m
- Spread
- 4.6 m to 7.6 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Flowers
- White, pinkRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension pink, white; Wikipedia cream, pink, white, yellow
- Coldest it survives
- -28.9 °C (USDA zone 5a)Read from NC State Extension, one source
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- Chinese
- 山櫻, 毛葉山櫻, 關山櫻
- French
- Cerisier du Japon, Cerisier des collines
- Portuguese
- Cerejeira Sakura, cereja-japonesa
- Czech
- sakura ozdobná
- Dutch
- Japanse sierkers
- Hebrew
- דובדבן יפני
- Korean
- 벚나무, 벚꽃
- Estonian
- peensaagjas kirsipuu
- Lithuanian
- Smailiadantė vyšnia
- Japanese
- サトザクラ類（園芸種）, ヤマザクラ, 桜
- Russian
- Вишня мелкопильчатая, Сакура
- Chinese (China)
- 山樱, 毛叶山樱, 日本晚樱
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-24, CC0-1.0
- Kew's checklist, read 2026-10-24, CC-BY-4.0
- NC State Extension, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikipedia, read 2026-10-25, fact, cited
- Wikimedia Commons, read 2026-10-24, CC BY-SA 3.0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- 3D model: Prunus serrulata (built for Vanagrha) by Vanagrha, own
A fact “checked by a majority of its sources” was settled by a vote of the pages it was read from, not by a person reading it; one marked “one source” rests on that page alone. Anything else not marked checked has not been checked yet. Where nothing is known, the page says so rather than guess.