Prunus lusitanica - Portugal Laurel Cherry

Description

Native to Spain and Portugal. Forms a large evergreen shrub or small tree with smooth stems and reddish branchlets. Leaves oblong-ovate to 12cm long, dark green glossy, paler beneath, margins shallow-toothed, reddish petiols or stalks. Foliage somewhat resembles Photina serrulata. Dull white hawthorn-scented 12mm flowers in slender 15cm racems late spring and summer, followed in autumn 8mm conical fruits turning dark purple. Good speciman tree and quite hardy. Lusitanica - from Portugal (Lusitania). Evergreen.

Dimensions: 5 x 4 metres