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Shizuka - Fragrant Cloud

  • Flowering month: May
  • Flower colour: White

Shizuka, or Fragrant Cloud, is a Japanese blossom tree which bears large clusters of bright white semi-double flowers. The flowers have an enchanting fragrance.

In late autumn the leaves develop golden orange colours.

Shizuka grows quickly into a fairly large and impressive tree, with an upright spreading habit.

Prunus

Shizuka - Fragrant Cloud flowering cherries for sale

  • 1-year maiden bare-root tree 29.95€
    Colt rootstock
    Large size (3m-4m after 10 years)
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Deliveries resume December 2020

History

Prunus Shizuka is one of the Matsumae collection of Japanese flowering cherries, developed in the 1960s by Masatoshi Asari. It is also known as Matsumae-Shizuka, and sometimes as Prunus 'Fragrant Cloud' (which is an approximate translation of the Japanese word shizuka).

Shizuka - Fragrant Cloud characteristics

  • Gardening skillAverage
  • VigourVigorous
  • Country of originJapan
  • Period of origin1950 - 1999
  • Flowering monthMay
  • Flower colourWhite
  • AwardsRHS Award of Garden Merit