Other Names:  Common Peach

Description:

A highly ornamental, but sensitive tree for landscape use, presenting very showy red flowers in early spring before the leaves, on an upright, vase form; a visually tremendous and versatile feature tree; not grown for its fruit

Ornamental Features

Magnifica Red Flowering Peach is covered in stunning clusters of fragrant red flowers with rose overtones along the branches in early spring, which emerge from distinctive scarlet flower buds before the leaves. It has green deciduous foliage. The serrated narrow leaves turn yellow in fall.

Landscape Attributes

Magnifica Red Flowering Peach is a deciduous tree with an indistinguished habit of growth. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

This tree will require occasional maintenance and upkeep, and should only be pruned after flowering to avoid removing any of the current season's flowers. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;

• Insects
• Disease

Magnifica Red Flowering Peach is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Accent
• Vertical Accent
• Hedges/Screening

Planting & Growing

Magnifica Red Flowering Peach will grow to be about 15 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 10 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 1 foot from the ground, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a slow rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 40 years or more.

This tree should only be grown in full sunlight. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. To help this plant achive its best flowering performance, periodically apply a flower-boosting fertilizer from early spring through into the active growing season. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments, and will benefit from being planted in a relatively sheltered location. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.