Oak Summit Nursery
Nanking Cherry Seeds
Nanking Cherry Seeds
Pack contains: 18+ seeds
Nanking Cherry (Prunus tomentosa) is a cold hardy fruiting shrub native to China, Mongolia, and Korea and introduced to North America in the 1800s. Its small bright red cherries have juicy flesh with sweet tart, slightly astringent flavour and are good fresh or in jam and jelly.
Nanking Cherry is mostly self sterile. A single bush can sometimes produce fruit, but two or more bushes usually give much better fruit set through cross pollination. In Manitoba, the fruit ripens in July.
Cold Hardiness Zone: 2
Seed Source: Manitoba
Stratification Required: 3 months cold
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Growing details
- Cold hardiness
- Zone 2
- Fruit size
- About 1/2 in across
- Flavour
- Sweet to tart, with some variation among seedlings
- Ripening
- July
- Pollination
- Plant two or more seedlings for reliable fruit set
- Mature height
- About 8 to 12 ft
Cold hardinessZone 2 · Canadian maps for this plant
Zone 2 and warmer
The map shows minimum winter hardiness. Soil, moisture and summer warmth also affect how a plant grows.
About these maps
Climate: Natural Resources Canada, 1991–2020. Provincial distribution: VASCAN via retained botanical research. Province outlines: Natural Earth, public domain.
Open Government Licence – Canada