Prunus persica 'RUBIRA' ('Rubra')

Prunus persica 'RUBIRA' ('Rubra')
flowering peach

SIZE/TYPE	small tree
USUAL HEIGHT	2-4m
USUAL WIDTH	1-2m
LEAVES	deciduous broadleaf
COLOUR OF LEAVES	green
FLOWERS	showy
COLOUR OF FLOWERS	combined:pink and deep pink
BLOOMING TIME	April - April
LOCATION	full sun
USDA zone (lowest)	5a (down to -29°C)
WINTER PROTECTION
FOR ZONE 5+6
FOR ZONE 7
BELONGS TO CATEGORIES	Deciduous broadleaf Fruit trees

Not only Japanese ornamental cherries can create the typical spring atmosphere in your garden. We have an exquisite small tree with flowers that can easily beat cherries. It is an ornamental flowering peach with quite large, bowl-shaped pink flowers with numerous deep pink to red stamens. Leaves have the same length and shape as on peach trees but their colour is another thing to make you want it: deep burgundy red. Fruit is medium to small, dark purple-red and if you want to eat it let it ripen until early autumn when it tastes best. The skin though is rather bitter. Grow this peach is full sun, slightly acidic soil that is well drained but never dries out.

Last update 13-10-2009

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GLOSSARY

STANDARD QUALITY - Plants of this group are 1st class quality with number of branches and overall density adequate to their size and age, considering they were container grown.
DE LUXE QUALITY - This label guarantees a luxurious quality of manually selected plants that, compared to their height and age, are exceptionally dense and beautiful.
EXTRA - These plants are usually mature and bigger specimens with exceptional overall appearance.
STANDARD (as described in the plant form) means a tree with a trunk of 190-210 cm and a crown at the top, unless specified differently. The commercial size for trees is their girth measured in the height of 1m from ground.
HOBBY - These plants are of the same quality as our standard-quality plants but younger and therefore cheaper.
SHRUB - a woody plant with branches growing bushy from the ground level.
HALF-STANDARD or MINI-STANDARD - a small tree with shorter trunk, its size is usually specified.
FEATHERED - These are trees with branches growing already from the base of the trunk and up along the stem.
GRASSES and PERENNIALS - Sizes given usually read the diameter of the pot or the clump, as specified.