Deciduous tree to 10 m tall. Leaves ovate-acuminate, to 8 cm long, margins simply serrate or shallowly doubly serrate. Flowers in clusters of 2-5, white to pink, to 3.5 cm wide, pedicels 2-2.5 cm long (longer in some cultivars). Fruit black, ovoid, 1 cm wide.
Japan.
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.
Prunus subhirtella 'Autumnalis'
White petals sometimes streaked pink, semi-double flowers to 2 cm wide, flowering mostly in the autumn, but also sporadically through winter to spring.
Prunus subhirtella 'Flore Pleno'
White petals edged with palest pink, semi-double flowers 2.5 cm wide.
Flowers pink, semi-double, 3-3.5 cm wide.
Prunus subhirtella 'Pendula Rubra'
Pendulous habit. Flowers pink, single, 2 cm wide.
Pendulous habit. Flowers white, tinged with pale pink, single, 3-3.5 cm wide.