Propagation
Take softwood cuttings from late spring to early summer.

Shield bud or whip graft onto apple rootstock (Malus x robustaand Malus sieboldii).


Botanic information
Leaf: The glossy dark green leaves are ovate to lanceolate with an acuminate apex and some cultivars have lobed margins. The apex is abruptly acuminate and the petiole is short.

Flower: The single or often double crateriform flowers are rosy red in bud and opened to blush-pink with yellowish stamens. The flowers are arranged in an umbel that appears in upper leaf axils on little spurs profusely during spring.

Fruit: The fruit is a small pea-like pome that is yellow to reddish on the sun exposed side. The small seeds are tending to be sterile and the plant is normally reproduced vegetatively.

General pruning information
This plant flowers on one or two year old wood and care should be taken not to cut back too hard as the plant will produce ample foliage but no flowers for up to two years. The plant may be trained to form a single leader or an open vase habit and may also be trained as an espalier with horizontal branching.
Young plants require training and can be cut back by two thirds during early spring. Once established the plant requires only a light prune to shape or the removal of dead or damaged wood.