Nanking Cherry
নানকিং চেরি
Prunus tomentosa Thunb.
- light
- Full sun
- water
- Medium
- tall
- 2.4 m
- wide
- 3.2 m
Rosaceae
Also called Chinese bush cherry, Nanking cherry
Formerly Amygdalus tomentosa, Armeniaca trichocarpa, Cerasus tomentosa, Microcerasus tomentosa, and 2 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.
If a child, a pet or anyone may have eaten a plant, contact a doctor or vet straight away, or call the National Poisons Information Centre (AIIMS, New Delhi) on 1800 116 117, free and open 24 hours.
Something wrong with it?About it
- Grows as
- TreeKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Climate
- TemperateKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Wild in
- Tibet to China, SakhalinKew's checklist, not yet checked
- Light
- Full sun (6 h or more)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension full, part; Wikipedia full
- Height
- 1.8 m to 3.0 mRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources. Sources differ: NC State Extension 6–10 ft; Wikipedia 0.3–3 m
- Spread
- 1.8 m to 4.6 mRead from NC State Extension, one source
- Water
- Average: moist, well drainedRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, not yet checked: its sources are splitTied: no reading has a majority of the 2 sources, so all are kept for a person to settle. Sources differ: NC State Extension medium; Wikipedia low
- Flowers
- White, pinkRead from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
- Coldest it survives
- -45.6 °C (USDA zone 2a)Read from NC State Extension and Wikipedia, checked by a majority of its sourcesBacked by both sources
Not known yet: heat, hottest it survives.
In other languages (12)
- French
- cerisier tomenteux
- Estonian
- vilt-kirsipuu
- Russian
- Вишня войлочная
- Czech
- višeň plstnatá
- Japanese
- ユスラウメ
- Lithuanian
- Veltininė kryklė
- Swedish
- luddkörsbär
- Chinese (China)
- 毛樱桃
- Chinese
- 毛櫻桃, 毛樱桃
- Korean
- 앵도나무, 앵두나무
- Danish
- kinesisk kirsebær
- Ukrainian
- Вишня повстиста
Where this comes from
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0-1.0 (observation counts)
- Wikidata, read 2026-10-26, 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 2026-10-25, CC BY-SA 2.5
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC BY
- iNaturalist, read 2026-10-25, CC0
- 3D model: Prunus tomentosa (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.