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Cherry tree in bloom in Yachounomori Garden, Tatebayashi, Gunma, Japan, April 2009 The cherry blossom, or sakura, is the flower of trees in Prunus subgenus Cerasus. Sakura usually refers to flowers of ornamental cherry trees, such as cultivars of Prunus serrulata, not trees grown for their fruit [1]: 14–18 [2] (although these also have blossoms).
The National Cherry Blossom Festival is a spring celebration in Washington, D.C., commemorating the 1912 gift of Japanese cherry trees from Tokyo to the city of Washington. They are planted in the Tidal Basin park. Several of 2,000 Japanese cherry trees given to the citizens of Toronto by the citizens of Tokyo in 1959 were planted in High Park.
Prunus cerasoides, commonly known as the wild Himalayan cherry, sour cherry [4] or pahhiya is a species of deciduous cherry tree in the family Rosaceae. Its range extends in the Himalayas from Himachal Pradesh in north-central India, to south-western China, Burma and Thailand. In India the tree is widely revered in the Himalayan state of ...
Sacramento’s first cherry blossom park is set to open this summer along the riverfront, organizers confirmed this week. The Hanami Line project, spearheaded by the Sacramento Tree Foundation ...
There are also many gardener blogs and articles that claim that "cherry trees" and "cherry blossom trees" are different species of cherry. This seems to be an arbitrary definition. I searched 19th century sources on Google Books, and there were only three books mentioning "cherry blossom tree", all in reference to Japanese cherries.
Brown was the unanimous winner of the NBA's coach of the year award in 2022-23, after his first season in Sacramento saw the Kings make the playoffs for the first time since 2006.
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Cherry blossom in Praça do Japão (Japan Square), Curitiba, Brazil. With the Japanese diaspora to Brazil, many immigrants brought seedlings of cherry trees. In São Paulo State, home to the largest Japanese community outside Japan, it is common to find them in Japan-related facilities and in home gardens, usually the cultivars Prunus serrulata 'Yukiwari' and Prunus serrulata var. lannesiana ...