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In the present day, ornamental cherry blossom trees are distributed and cultivated worldwide. [1] While flowering cherry trees were historically present in Europe, North America, and China, [2] the practice of cultivating ornamental cherry trees was centered in Japan, [3] and many of the cultivars planted worldwide, such as that of Prunus × yedoensis, [4] [5] have been developed from Japanese ...
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).
However, detailed DNA studies revealed that they were complex interspecific hybrids with the Oshima cherry, so they are classified as the Prunus Sato-zakura group or Cerasus Sato-zakura group. [4] [12] [5] 'Kanzan' is the most popular Japanese cherry tree cultivar for cherry blossom viewing in Europe and North America.
In Japan it is favored as an ornamental tree for its tendency to bloom, flowers before leaves, earlier than the Japanese cherry Prunus serrulata. [4] A tetraploid with 2n=32 chromosomes, it is used as rootstock for other flowering cherries. It is the parent of a number of hybrid cultivars. [5] [4] It is resistant to the fungal disease cherry ...
Yoshino cherry at Tidal Basin, Washington, D.C. Yoshino cherries are the most common cultivar in the population of cherry trees donated to the city by Japan.. In 1900, Yorinaga Fujino [] gave the Yoshino cherry the name Somei-yoshino after the famous place of cultivation, Somei village (current day Toshima) and famous place of Prunus jamasakura, Mount Yoshino. [15]
Prunus is a genus of flowering trees and shrubs from the family Rosaceae, which includes plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots and almonds (collectively stonefruit).The genus has a cosmopolitan distribution, [4] being native to the temperate regions of North America, the neotropics of South America, and temperate and tropical regions of Eurasia and Africa, [5] There are about 340 ...
Branch of a Rainier cherry tree. Rainier (/ r eɪ ˈ n ɪər / ray-NEER) is a cultivar of cherry. It was developed in 1952 at Washington State University by Harold Fogle, and named after Mount Rainier. It is a cross between the Bing and Van cultivars. [1] Rainiers are considered a premium type of cherry. They are sweet with a thin skin and ...
Sweetheart is a self-fertile cultivar which can be used as a "universal pollinator" for other cherry varieties with similar bloom time. [6] The flowers bloom about 2-3 days before Bing. [1] It is a very heavy producer, with overcropping being a potential issue. [7] The tree is highly susceptible to powdery mildew. [8]