Cultivar has been produced both from cuttings and by grafting onto sweet cherry, as well as named clonal root-stocks. Japanese cherries grafted on sweet cherry tend to make unsatisfactory specimens over time, with poorly matched main stem diameters and heavy surface roots, vigorous suckering. Nevertheless, it appears many are still being generated commercially in this way.

thx bboy ... so i fi read you right.. you are thinking sweet cherry understock based on what its doing ...

i will wait until spring.. and then see what the canopy does ... and then make the ultimate decision ...

ken

would the answer differ at all .. if the tree was a yoshino cherry ...???

15 years later.. i have an imprecise recollection of the actual label ....

ken

No, I was talking about Japanese cherries in general. I have seen more than one cultivar offered on named, dwarfing stock selected for the purpose here. Otherwise many older specimens featuring a Japanese cherry trapped on sweet cherry are present in the local landscape, and a more recent purchase I made of a new one from the USNA breeding program turned out to be on sweet cherry, with the stock pretty much immediately attempting to replace the scion with its own top. And an unpleasant stem diameter difference between scion and stock already well underway.

Are the sucker leaves the same as the canopy leaves?