Japanese Ornamental Cherry Tree
This lens is about one of the most beautiful ornamental trees, the Japanese Flowering Cherry. Flowering cherry trees (known as 'ornamental cherries') have the stamens and pistils replaced by additional petals ("double" flowers), so are sterile and do not bear fruit. They are grown purely for their flowers and decorative value. Cherry blossoms aren't only popular in the Orient (even given to women as a first name), but in Portland, Oregon and Washington, D.C., it is a big event each year when the Flowering Cherry trees blossom! Tens of thousands of tourists attend the spectacular event, from all over the USA and other parts of the World! After the dark and colorless long winter hours, when Spring arrives on velvet soles, these trees surprise us with their sudden, exuberant exbibition of beauty and charm!
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Cherry Blossoms
Sakura or Cherry Blossom is the Japanese name for ornamental cherry trees, Prunus serrulata, and their blossoms. Also called Oriental Cherry or East Asian Cherry, this spectacular tree is in the rose family Rosaceae.It is a small tree with a short single trunk, with a dense crown reaching a height of about 8-12 m. The smooth bark is chestnut-brown. The simple, ovate-lanceolate leaves are arranged alternately on short petioles. Their margin is serrate or doubly serrate. At the end of autumn, the green leaves turn yellow, red or crimson.
The tree is slightly less cold-hardy than Prunus avium but generally survives and blooms anywhere peach trees will survive.
The Japanese Cherry starts flowering profusely from the first warmer days in April. The pink or white flowers grow in racemose clusters at nodes on short spurs. They are past flowering early in May.
The fruit is a small, black, globose drupe, growing in racemose clusters.
In cultivation in Europe and North America, it is usually grafted on to Prunus avium roots; the cultivated forms rarely bear fruit. It is viewed as part of the Japanese custom of Hanami.
There are several varieties :
* Prunus serrulata var. hupehensis (Ingram) Ingram
* Prunus serrulata var. lannesiana (Carrière) Makino - Japanese Late-flowering Cherry.
* Prunus serrulata var. lannesiana f. alba Makino
* Prunus serrulata var. pubescens (Makino) Nakai - Hairy-leaved Mountain Cherry, Korean Mountain Cherry, Chinese Mountain Cherry.
* Prunus serrulata var. quelpaertensis Uieki - Korean Mountain Cherry
* Prunus serrulata var. serrulata - Chinese Cherry
* Prunus serrulata var. tomentella Nakai - Korean Mountain Cherry
Reference
wikipedia
http://web.reed.edu/trees/TreePages/PRUN.html
http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/factsheets/trees-new/prunus_serrulata.html
Sakura Japanese Cherry Blossom
Sakura (cherry blossom) 桜 花見
A video I made in northern Japan to celebrate the explosion of cherry blossoms after a long winter. The song is called "sakura" which means cherry blossoms and the two kanji that pop up mean "cherry blossom" and later "flower viewing."
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The ornimental cherry is a beautiful tree. Posted August 24, 2008 |
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