Accolade Flowering Cherry               PROO-nus

• Broadleaf deciduous tree, to about 25 ft (7.6 m) tall and wide, open and airy crown, spreading, twigy, long slender branches which tend to droop.  Bark is attractive, smooth, reddish-brown, marked with horizontal lenticels.  Leaves simple, alternate, to about 14 cm long, lightly hairy on both sides, margin has fine, sharp teeth, dark green; fall color my be orange/yellow.  Flowers dark pink in bud, opening to a soft pink, semi-double (12-15 petals), about 30-40 mm wide, 2-4 per drooping cluster, often on the end of thin, bare branches; bloom occur in early spring before leaves appear; usually fruitless.
• Sun to part shade.  
• Hardy to USDA Zone 4     Originated at Knap Hill nursery, England, resulting from a cross of P. sargentii x P. subhirtella.
• Corvallis: front of the Unitarian Fellowship, Circle Blvd. and Firwood Dr.