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Outstanding Features:
Grown for its purple foliage color.
Description:
Height: 6-8'
Width: 6-8'
Hardiness Zone: 3b
Purpleleaf Sand Cherry is a shrub or small tree that is usually slightly taller than wide. It is grown as a small tree (often multistemmed) or large shrub. It is valued primarily for its purple colored foliage. Flowers are small and pink in color. It blooms after the foliage develops in spring. Very winter hardy. It was introduced by South Dakota State University.
Requirements and Culture:
It requires a well drained soil and does best in full sun. It will tolerate light shade but the plant becomes more open and the foliage color will be less intense.
Limitations:
Subject to leaf spot diseases, stem canker.
Often short lived.
Selected Cultivars:
'Big Cis'- is a rapid growing cultivar
which produces a tree form, to about 10-15'. Leaves are larger and
trunk is heavier than the species. Zone 4b.
P. cerasifera `Newport' - Newport Purpleleaf
Plum is a small tree (12-15') with pink flowers and purple foliage.
Less hardy than P. x cistena. Zone 4b.
Photo Credit:
1 & 2 MLA; 3 E. Hasselkus.
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States Power Company
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PURPLELEAF SAND CHERRY Prunus x cistena