✨ The Manchurian Apricot is a small, fast-growing tree native to Manchuria and Korea. It features a rounded, spreading form, white spring flowers, golden-orange autumn foliage, and edible peach-like fruit, best suited for preserves. Early flowering can make fruits vulnerable to spring frost.
Size & Growth: Reaches 3–4.5 m (10–15 ft) in height with a canopy spread of 3.5–5.5 m (12–18 ft). Bark is reddish-brown to cinnamon. Medium root system. Leaves are glossy, simple, broad-ovate to elliptic, with sharply double-serrate margins and light green coloration, turning yellow to orange in fall.
Flowers & Fruit: Solitary flowers ~2.5 cm (1”) in diameter, ranging from almost white to pink. Fruits are subglobose, yellow, sometimes with a red blush.
Environmental Needs: Prefers loamy soil, pH 6.0–7.5, full sun exposure, moderately drought-tolerant. USDA Zone 3 hardy. Avoid waterlogged conditions.
Uses:
Conservation/Windbreaks: Ideal small tree for farmstead windbreaks
Wildlife: Provides nesting for songbirds; rabbits and rodents may cause winter damage
Agroforestry & Products: Fruits for fresh, processed, and dried consumption. Source of phloretin for cosmetics, soaps, and medicinal uses. Related Prunus species have been used for cough, cold, gout, and cancer research.
Urban/Recreational: Can be used as a specimen or screen tree; fruits may be undesirable in boulevard plantings
🌱 Sowing Instructions:
Propagation: Seeds
Pretreat: Soak seeds in water for 24 hours
Stratification: 3 months in moist sowing mix at 2–5 °C
Sowing Time: Year-round; Autumn/Winter preferred
Sowing Depth: 1–1.5 cm
Sowing Mix: Coir or sowing mix + sand/perlite
Germination Temperature: Minimum 20 °C
Location: Bright; keep substrate constantly moist but not wet
Germination Time: Until seeds germinate
Watering: Water regularly during growing season
🌏 Cultivars & Related Species:
Mandan Apricot (P. armeniaca var. mandshurica ‘Mandan’)
Moongold/Sungold Apricot (P. x ‘Moongold’ / ‘Sungold’)
Siberian Apricot (P. armeniaca var. sibirica)
Related: American Plum (P. americana)
🔗 Learn More:
📘 Wikipedia: Apricot
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