General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Tree
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Minimum cold hardiness: Zone 4a -34.4 °C (-30 °F) to -31.7 °C (-25 °F)
Maximum recommended zone: Zone 7b
Plant Height: usually 20 to 30 feet, to 50 feet
Plant Spread: 20 to 30 feet, to 50 feet
Leaves: Good fall color
Deciduous
Fruit: Other: 1/3 inch long ovoid purple-black drupe
Fruiting Time: Summer
Flowers: Showy
Blooms on old wood
Flower Color: Pink
Bloom Size: Under 1"
Flower Time: Spring
Uses: Flowering Tree
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Pollinators: Various insects
Miscellaneous: Monoecious

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Common names
  • Sargent Cherry
Botanical names
  • Accepted: Prunus sargentii
  • Synonym: Cerasus sachalinensis
  • Synonym: Cerasus sargentii

Photo Gallery
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Date: 2021-04-17
Sargent Cherry (Prunus sargentii).
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Date: 2023-04-16
Sargent Cherry (Prunus sargentii).
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Date: 2023-04-16
Sargent Cherry (Prunus sargentii).
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Date: 2023-04-16
Sargent Cherry (Prunus sargentii).
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Date: 2023-04-16
Sargent Cherry (Prunus sargentii).
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2021-04-10
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2021-04-10
Location: Toronto, Ontario
Date: 2021-04-17
Sargent Cherry (Prunus sargentii).
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2021-10-10
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2016-04-14
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2021-04-10
Location: Reading, Pennsylvania
Date: 2023-05-31
foliage of young tree
Location: RHS Harlow Carr gardens, Yorkshire, England UK 
Date: 2021-04-10
Prunus sargentii
Location: Chicago Botanical Gardens
Date: 2013-05-21
Bonsi , style Informal Upright
Location: Reading, Pennsylvania
Date: 2023-05-31
newly planted young tree at Reading Museum grounds
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2021-10-10
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2021-04-10
Location: RHS Harlow Carr, Yorkshire, UK
Date: 2018-10-07
Location: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Date: 2017-10-09
Location: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Date: 2017-10-09
Comments:
  • Posted by ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Oct 27, 2019 9:34 AM concerning plant:
    This species named after the famous Dr. Sargent of the Arnold Arboretum in Boston, MA, is native to Japan. I finally saw one planted at the grounds of the Reading Museum in June of 2023; never before. My old woody plant teacher of Dr. Michael Dirr really liked it a lot. He especially loved its beautiful polished reddish to chestnut brown bark that is marked with extended horizontal lenticels. It bears shiny, dark green leaves 3 to 5 inches long, often sort of rounded, bearing bronze to reddish fall color. The flowers are single pink and to 1.5 inches wide in late April into early May.
  • Posted by Mindy03 (Delta KY) on Feb 8, 2012 2:36 PM concerning plant:
    Valuable source of nectar and pollen for honey bees.

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