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Outstanding Features:
Attractive copper colored birch-like bark. Showy white flowers. Fast growth rate.
Description:
Height: 20-30'
Width: 18-25'
Hardiness Zone: 3a
Amur Chokecherry is a rapid growing small tree that has very attractive smooth copper colored bark. It produces long clusters of small white flowers in spring. Mature fruit is small, black in color and quickly eaten by birds. Tree form is oval, becoming more rounded with age. The smooth, copper colored bark is very effective in the winter landscape. It is one of the hardiest ornamental cherry trees available.
Requirements and Culture:
Prefers a fertile, well drained soil. Needs full sun for best development. Develops girdling roots very easily. Care must be taken during production and transplanting to ensure that roots are not curled in early development. Often has weak crotches so may require cabling if not properly pruned and trained while a young tree.
Limitations:
Weak crotch angles and tendency to develop girdling roots. Not always long lived.
Photo Credit:
1 Bailey Nurseries, Inc.; 2 & 3 MLA.
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AMUR CHOKECHERRY Prunus maackii