Cherry - Nanking

Nanking cherry is an attractive fruit shrub that produces beautiful white-pink flowers in the spring and small, round, red berries in the summer. The pleasantly tart fruit can be eaten fresh, or made into jelly, preserves or wine. Can re-seed from un-picked fruit that falls on bare soil. Useful as a pollinator for some other prunus varieties.

Harvest: July
Pollinators: Pincherry, Nanking Cherry, Brookgold, Canadian/American, Ptitsin #5, Tecumseh, Toka, and Waneta plums, Compass, Convoy, Manor, Opata, Sapa, and Sapalta Cherry-Plums, Manchurian Apricot
Zone: 2
Light: Full Sun
Height: 2-3 m Width: 1.5 m
Suckers: Low
Deer Resistant: No
Drought Resistant: No
Latin: Prunus tormentosa