Prunus grayana
Japanese bird cherry · also Gray's bird cherry, ウワミズザクラ, Uwa-mizu-zakura
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Prunus grayana is a small deciduous tree reaching 8–20 m in height. It has slender trunks with smooth grey to purple-grey bark and distinctive horizontal brown lenticels. It produces small white flowers in mid-spring, followed by small drupes that ripen from green to red then black in mid-summer. The tree prefers sunshine and moist, well-drained soil.
Where it grows
Trees in each city's inventory, with the share of that city's named trees this species accounts for.
- 90.01%16 yr49 in
- 60.00%—6.1 in
- 10.00%—2.0 in
Traits
- Foliage
- Deciduous
- Mature height
- 26.2–65.6 ft
- Sun
- Full sun
- Soil
- Well-drained
- Water needs
- Moderate
- Wildlife value
- Moderate
- Blooms
- Apr, May
Trunk diameters across every city: median 26 in, mean 30 in, 90th percentile 59 in. Measured at breast height, as published by each inventory.
Native range
Terrestrial ecoregions where this species is native. Trees in the dataset mostly stand well outside it.
Temperate Broadleaf & Mixed Forests
- Central China Loess Plateau mixed forests
- Northeast China Plain deciduous forests
Other Prunus in the catalogue
60 of the top 2,000 species are in this genus.
