Japanese Flowering Cherry, Oriental Cherry         PROO-nus ser-u-LA-ta

• Broadleaf deciduous tree, 20-35 ft (6-11 cm), many clones, variable habits.  Note horizontal lenticels on bark.  Leaves alternate, simple, 5-13 cm long, have a long point, serrate with bristle-like teeth, 2-4 glands on petiole.  Flowers 3.5 cm diameter, white, double, 3-5 per cluster, pedicels to 4 cm long.  Fruit a small black cerry.
• Sun or part shade.  Grown for the relatively large flowers that cover the trees in spring.  Susceptible to several diseases.
• Hardy to USDA Zone 5      Species native to China, Japan, Korea.  Many cultivars available, some of the more common ones include 'Kanzan' , 'Mt. Fugi', and 'Shirofugen'.   Sometimes cultivars are grafted on to Prunus serrula, Birchbark Cherry, at a height of about 5 ft to produce a tree with showy flowers and showy bark.
• Oregon State Univ. campus: south (west) side of the Memorial Union ('Mt. Fugi'); front of Bexell ('Kanzan').