Cherry Yoshino
(Prunus x yedoensis)
- Type: Deciduous
- Light: Sun
- Height: 20-40'
- Spread: 20-30'
- Flower: White
- Bloom: Spring
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Yoshino cherry, is a graceful ornamental flowering cherry tree that typically grows 30-40’ tall with a spreading, broad-rounded, open crown. Fragrant white (sometimes tinged pink) flowers appear before or simultaneous to the emergence of the foliage in a profuse and spectacular early spring bloom. Flowers are followed by small black cherries (1/2” diameter) which are bitter to humans but loved by birds. Foliage turns yellow and with bronze tints in fall. This hybrid cherry comes from Japan an is one of the predominant cherry trees planted in Washington D.C.