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Prunus Cerasifera Nigra 14-16cm Girth 425-60m High Root Ball
Prunus Cerasifera Nigra 14-16cm Girth 4.25-6.0m High Root Ball

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Prunus Cerasifera Nigra 14-16cm Girth 4.25-6.0m High Root Ball

Product Code:  MP14PRCENI35
Dispatched from November 2012

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The Prunus cerasifera ’Nigra’ is a superb small to medium sized deciduous tree with a broadly rounded habit. The trees leaves display a bronze red colour when young however with age this gradually darkens to a deep purple. It is also known for producing one of the earliest blossoms of the season as masses of single bowl shaped pink flowers adorn its bare branches from as early as February occasionally followed by plum like red or yellow edible from July onwards.

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Benefits
• Growth Habit: irregular bushy
• Height: 6-9m
• Spread: 6-9m
• Hardiness: Able to withstand bitterly cold temperatures down to -35C or -30F.
• Shelter Needs: Moderate shelter
• Light Needs: Partial sun
• Water Needs: Moist conditions
• Soil Conditions: light, medium, heavy, clay or chalky soil.
• Flowers: Pink
• Leaves: Ovate, Oblong
• It has been awarded the RHS award of Garden Merit

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Complete Product Information for Prunus Cerasifera Nigra 14-16cm Girth 4.25-6.0m High Root Ball
This is also known as `Pissardi Nigra`. Leaves are red when young, becoming dark purple, with pink flowers in early spring to mid spring.

You should plant in moist, well-drained soil in full sun, remember to protection from strong winds. Propagation is from grafting or from seeds.

Seed in autumn the deciduous species, deciduous hybrids by softwood cuttings in summer. Increase evergreens by semi-ripe cuttings in summer.

Bullfinches may eat flower buds and foliage may be attacked by aphids, caterpillars and the fungal disease silver leaf. Flowering cherries are prone to a fungus that causes abnormal crowded shoots (sometimes called witches` brooms).


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Prunus Cerasifera Nigra 14-16cm Girth 425-60m High Root Ball
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