Mayday Cherry vs Flowering Raspberry - TreeTime.ca

Mayday Cherry vs Flowering Raspberry

Rubus odoratus

Prunus padus

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Flowering Raspberry
Mayday Cherry

The Flowering Raspberry is an ornamental shrubby plant that blooms with fragrant light purple flowers throughout the summer and has a large, decorative foliage of bright green leaves. The flowers resemble that of a wildrose, and the foliage turns a bright yellow in the fall. This cultivar produces small red raspberries, similar to that of a thimbleberry, but the fruit is mostly tasteless.

The Flowering Raspberry, also known as Virginia Raspberry or Purple-Flowered Raspberry, makes a great hedge plant and is a good choice for attracting birds to your yard.

Mayday Cherry is a small deciduous tree known for its early blooming and fragrant white flowers.

A favourite specimen tree on prairie homesteads, Mayday Cherry produces small black berries that are inedible to people but highly desirable to birds.

Flowering Raspberry Quick Facts

Mayday Cherry Quick Facts

Zone: 3a
Zone: 3a
Height: 1.8 m (6 ft)
Height: 9 m (30 ft)
Spread: 4 m (12 ft)
Spread: 8 m (25 ft)
Light: any
Light: full sun
Moisture: normal
Moisture: normal
Growth rate: fast
Growth rate: medium
Life span: medium
Life span: short
Suckering: high
Suckering: low


Toxicity: seeds and leaves are toxic if ingested
Bark: thornless orange
Flowers: purple
Flowers: early blooming, white
Fruit: small black berries
Berries: red to purple, seedy
Berries: small black berries
Firmness: firm
Flavor: tasteless
Seeds: located within the berries
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no


Native to: ON, QC, NS
Other Names: purple-flowered raspberry, virginia raspberry
Other Names: common bird cherry, european bird cherry