Propagation
Plants are budded on to Prunus persicaroot stock.
Take hardwood cuttings during winter.

Culture
Avoid pruning during winter or early spring as the oozing sap may encourage fungal disease and the flowers appear on one year old wood. The tree, tolerates pruning after flowering to encourage vigorous regrowth, which will be the following years flowering wood. When used as a cut flower cut back stem to the nearest node on the stem.

Botanic information
Leaf: The leaves are lanceolate to elliptical, up to 50 mm (2 in) wide. The petiole is up to 20mm (ľin) long and the apex is acute with a short point. The margin is serrate to crenate and during autumn the leaves turn yellow before falling.

Flower: The single crateriform flowers are solitary or are arranged in pairs appearing on one-year-old wood before the leaves during early spring.

Fruit: The drupe varies in colour from pale pink, yellow to scarlet with a finely pubescent surface. The pitted woody centre is surrounded by a fleshy layer. The species produces poor peaches but the cultivars produce delicious fruit. The seeds are viable but the plant may be reproduced vegetatively in order to maintain true to type.