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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).
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Cherry blossom or Sakura is the blossom of cherry trees, genus Prunus. Cherry blossom or Cherry blossoms may also refer to: Cherry Blossoms, a 2008 German film directed by Doris Dörrie; Cherry Blossom, a 2020 album by the Vamps "Cherry Blossom", a 1981 Seiko Matsuda song; Cherry Blossoms (marriage agency), a marriage agency
Peach blossom: Prunus persica: 1953 [11] District of Columbia: American Beauty Rose: Rosa: 1925 [4] Florida: Orange blossom (state flower) Citrus sinensis: 1909 [12] Tickseed (state wildflower) Coreopsis spp. 1991 [13] Georgia: Cherokee rose (state floral emblem) Rosa laevigata: 1916 [14] Azalea (state wildflower) Rhododendron: 1979 [15] Guam ...
Cherry Blossom Street Party - Bands and performers of rock, blues, country, and other genres play live music at night. Cherry Blossom Pageant - A royal court of one queen and four princesses are chosen every year. Air Show - Held every year at the Macon Downtown Airport, it features aerobatic performances by military airplanes.
Great White Cherry. Flowers single, white, very large (up to 8 cm diameter); young leaves bronze-coloured at first, becoming green. [ 17 ] By the beginning of the 20th century it had already ceased to exist in Japan, but Collingwood Ingram , an English man who had imported it from Japan before then, sent it back to Japan in 1932. [ 23 ]
The Jefferson Memorial visible through cherry blossoms across the Tidal Basin. The National Cherry Blossom Festival is a spring celebration in Washington, D.C., commemorating the March 27, 1912, gift of Japanese cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo City to the city of Washington, D.C. Ozaki gave the trees to enhance the growing friendship between the United States and Japan and also ...
Prunus padus, known as bird cherry, hackberry, hagberry, or Mayday tree, is a flowering plant in the rose family. It is a species of cherry , a deciduous small tree or large shrub up to 16 metres (52 ft) tall.