Plate 1 figs. a–h · 5 observations
This species has been photographed under an open licence only 5 times, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.
Every figure is a research-grade observation under CC0, CC BY or CC BY-SA, rehosted with the photographer’s name, the licence and the observation it came from. Photographs under a NonCommercial licence are excluded from this site and are never stored, which costs us a great many pictures and is not negotiable.
Native range 7 botanical countries
| Region | TDWG code | Continent |
|---|---|---|
| China Southeast | CHS | ASIA-TEMPERATE |
| Japan | JAP | |
| Khabarovsk | KHA | |
| Korea | KOR | |
| Manchuria | CHM | |
| Primorye | PRM | |
| Sakhalin | SAK |
Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.
Where it actually grows measured, from 91 observations
| Condition | 5th percentile | Median | 95th percentile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Coldest month, mean daily low | -24.8 °C | -14.9 °C | -8.4 °C |
| Warmest month, mean daily high | 17.8 °C | 22.0 °C | 25.0 °C |
| Annual rainfall | 663 mm | 842 mm | 2,598 mm |
| Rainfall in the driest quarter | 38 mm | 55 mm | 307 mm |
It is found where winters are severely cold. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 91 research-grade observations of Prunus maximowiczii that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.
This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.
Also published as 13 synonyms
A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.
- Cerasus maximoviczii (Rupr.) Kovalev
- Cerasus maximowiczii (Rupr.) Kom. & Aliss.
- Cerasus maximowiczii (Rupr.) Masam. & S.Suzuki
- Padellus maximowiczii (Rupr.) Eremin & Yushev
- Padus maximowiczii (Rupr.) S.Ya.Sokolov
- Prunus bracteata Franch. & Sav.
- Prunus maximowiczii f. aperta H.Hayashi
- Prunus maximowiczii f. aperta Kom.
- Prunus maximowiczii f. gymnopus (Honda) Sugim.
- Prunus maximowiczii f. rotundifolia Koji Ito
- Prunus maximowiczii var. gymnopus Honda
- Prunus meyeri Rehder
- Prunus pulchella Koehne
Sourcesevery claim on this page
- World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
- iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
- Wikidata. common name (P1843), joined on the World Flora Online identifier (P7715). CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
- Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.
We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.