Introduction to flower varieties with multiple, lush and eye-catching petals

Dwarf flowering cherry (Prunus glandulosa): Rosaceae, genus Prunus, deciduous shrub, up to 2 m tall. Leaves ovate-oblong to elliptic-lanceolate, 5-8 cm long, apex acute but often rounded-obtuse, base broadly cuneate, margin finely serrate, both surfaces hairless or with sparse pubescence on the midrib beneath; petiole 4-6 mm long. Flowers pink or nearly white, about 2 cm in diameter, pedicel about 1 cm long. Fruit nearly spherical, 1-1.5 cm in diameter, red.

Dwarf flowering cherry

Dwarf flowering cherry has a certain cold tolerance and strong adaptability, and prefers light. Fairly cold-tolerant, highly adaptable. It is very ornamental; it is commonly cultivated for viewing in gardens in various places and is suitable for mass planting on lawns, roadsides, beside rockeries and at forest edges, and can also be used for foundation planting, pot culture, or as material for forcing flowers and cut flowers. It grows on hillsides, by ditches or in thickets, and is also cultivated in gardens, at elevations of 800-2300 m. It is distributed in China and Japan.

In the wild, and especially in cultivation, this species varies considerably; some people have further divided it into several varieties or forms based on variation in flower color, single or double flowers, pedicels, branchlets and pubescence on the style. These characteristic variations show no regular pattern in geographical distribution and can be treated as forms.

Dwarf flowering cherry

Pest and disease control:

Pests occur in all types of dwarf flowering cherry seedlings. The seedbed of 1-year-old cuttings is prone to pests and diseases in early September after the plastic sheeting is opened and during the second year of retention in the bed; spray with 10.25% concentration of carbendazim or 0.1% concentration of omethoate every two weeks for prevention. The most common pest is the tent caterpillar; during the growing period of large seedlings, spray once with 0.1% concentration of omethoate for prevention.

Dwarf flowering cherry

Landscape use:

Dwarf flowering cherry is very ornamental; it is commonly cultivated for viewing in gardens in various places and is suitable for mass planting on lawns, roadsides, beside rockeries and at forest edges, and can also be used for foundation planting, pot culture, or as material for forcing flowers and cut flowers. It blooms in spring before the leaves emerge, the whole tree brilliant and very beautiful, and in autumn the leaves turn red again, making it an excellent ornamental garden tree.