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Tasting notes and identification advice for apples, pears, plums, cherries and other orchard varieties.

Ornamental cherry varieties

  • Kanzan Flowering cherry
    Kanzan (or Kwanzan) is one of the most popular Japanese flowering cherries, well-suited to the UK climate.

  • Kiku-shidare-zakura Flowering cherry
    This is the classic Japanese weeping pink cherry blossom tree (sometimes known as Cheal's Weeping Cherry).

  • Kobuku-zakura Powder Puff Flowering cherry
    An early-flowering white cherry blossom tree, with particularly luxuriant double-white flowers.

  • Kojo-no-mai Flowering cherry
    An excellent small compact blossom tree, featuring a mass of small white flowers, and good autumn colours.

  • Kursar Flowering cherry
    A small ornamental early-flowing cherry tree, with profuse blossom.