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Prunus (Sato-zakura Group) 'Tai Haku'
Common name:
Tai Haku Japanese flowering cherry
Family:
Rosaceae (rose family)
Distribution:
hybrid: derived from Prunus sp. native to e. Asia
Hardiness:
USDA Zone 5
Life form:
Deciduous tree
Comments:
Habit is wide, vase-shaped up to 25'; often wider than high. May-blooming cherry with single 2" white blossoms. New growth is reddish bronze with mature leaves up to 8". Fall color is yellow-orange. Winter branches are coarse in appearance with obvious horizontal lenticels on dark purplish brown bark.
Links:
RHS Horticultural Database
Locations
1:
JPG: BB26
(BB26)
• Accession: D1994-0289.004 • Provenance: Cultivated of Garden Origin
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Individual