information re red may day tree

[skelgasser]

Searching for information concerning a red leaf May Day tree. It has been suggested that this would be a good tree for our area. Need info re rate of growth, total heights attained, hardiness and any other info pretaining to good and bad features of this tree.

 

[John Paul Sanborn]

Mayday tree, or bird cherry. Latin is Prunus padus.

No one page had enough info for me to do a cut&paste. Here is the search I did.

http://search.dogpile.com/texis/search?q=Prunus+padus&geo=no&fs=web