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Mayday Cherry vs Klondike Amur Cherry

Prunus maackii Jefdike

Prunus padus

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Klondike Amur Cherry
Mayday Cherry

The Klondike Amur Cherry is an attractive cultivar which features showy, peeling gold bark and textured oval leaves that turn bright yellow in fall. It blooms with fragrant white flowers in mid spring, and produces tiny, tart black berries through the summer. The Klondike Amur Cherry was bred to have improved stem strength and stronger branching.

This tree makes a great addition to urban gardens and commercial planting, and is immune to black knot.

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.

Klondike Amur Cherry Quick Facts

Mayday Cherry Quick Facts

Zone: 2a
Zone: 3a
Height: 8 m (25 ft)
Height: 9 m (30 ft)
Spread: 5 m (15 ft)
Spread: 8 m (25 ft)
Light: partial shade, full sun
Light: full sun
Moisture: normal, wet
Moisture: normal
Growth rate: medium
Growth rate: medium
Life span: medium
Life span: short
Suckering: low
Suckering: low


Toxicity: seeds and leaves are toxic if ingested
Fall colour: yellow
Bark: golden
Flowers: white, fragrant
Flowers: early blooming, white
Fruit: small black berries
Berries: tiny, black clusters
Berries: small black berries
Flavor: tart
Harvest: July
Seeds: located within the berries
Hybrid: no
Hybrid: no
Catkins: no
Catkins: no


Other Names: common bird cherry, european bird cherry