Other Names:  Common Peach

Brand:  Monrovia

Description:

A highly ornamental, but sensitive tree for landscape use, featuring showy double pink flowers in early spring before the leaves, on an upright vase form; a tremendous and versatile feature tree when early spring color is desired

Ornamental Features

Corinthian Pink Flowering Peach is bathed in stunning clusters of fragrant pink flowers along the branches in early spring, which emerge from distinctive rose flower buds before the leaves. It has attractive brick red-variegated grayish green foliage with hints of violet which emerges coppery-bronze in spring. The glossy narrow leaves are highly ornamental and turn yellow in fall.

Landscape Attributes

Corinthian Pink Flowering Peach is a deciduous tree with a narrowly upright and columnar growth habit. 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 is best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed. Gardeners should be aware of the following characteristic(s) that may warrant special consideration;

• Messy
• Insects
• Disease

Corinthian Pink Flowering Peach is recommended for the following landscape applications;

• Accent
• Vertical Accent
• Hedges/Screening

Planting & Growing

Corinthian Pink Flowering Peach will grow to be about 25 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 15 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 2 feet from the ground, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a fast 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. It may require supplemental watering during periods of drought or extended heat. 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.