Yoshino Cherry
Prunus x yedoensis
The classic cherry-blossom tree, covered in clouds of pale pink to white, lightly almond-scented flowers in spring, then glossy leaves and a broad canopy for shade and gold fall colour. Give it sun, room to spread and soil that isn't constantly wet. Deer often damage it, and borers and fungal disease are common.
- Mature size
- 30 × 25 ft
- 9 × 7.5 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 5a–8b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to moist
- Blooms
- Mar–Apr
Yoshino Cherry at its mature size
A mature Yoshino Cherry grows 20 to 40 feet tall and 10 to 50 feet wide, taller than most people.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: NC State Extension, The Tree Center.
Through the year
What Yoshino Cherry looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Dormant · Dec–Feb
Bare spreading branches.
In flower · Mar–Apr
Clouds of single pale pink to white flowers on bare branches.
In leaf · May–Sep
Dense green leaves, no flowers.
Fall · Oct–Nov
Leaves turned yellow and bronze.
Photos
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Growing Yoshino Cherry
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Southeast, and the Pacific Northwest.
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Good for
- Specimen and fast growing
- Leaves
- Drops its leaves in winter
- Native to
- Garden origin (Japan)
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Yoshino Cherry, that’s about 25 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Yoshino Cherry in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other cherries
Kwanzan Cherry
Okame Cherry
Yoshino CherryAll drawn to the same scale.