Deciduous round-headed tree to 10 m tall. Leaves to 10 cm long, ovate to obovate, long-acuminate, margins serrate. Flowers in 1s or 2s, to 3 cm wide, white to pink, very fragrant, in mid- to late winter and early spring before the foliage, stalkless or with a short stalk. Fruit yellow-green, globose, 2-3 cm wide, inedible.
This is the earliest Prunus to flower.
China, Japan, Korea.
Source: (2002). Rosaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
Flowers white, semi-double.
Flowers deep pink, single to semi-double. The earliest cultivar to flower.
Branches pendulous. Flowers pink, single to semi-double.
Flowers pink, double.
Flowers pink, double.
