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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).
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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.
The cherry blossom front between Kyushu and Kanto, 2007. The cherry blossom front (桜前線, sakura zensen) is the advance of the cherry blossoms across Japan.The Japan Meteorological Agency records the opening and full bloom of the blossoms from Kyūshū in late March to Hokkaidō in the middle of May.
Macon is known as the Cherry Blossom Capital of the World, because 300,000 sakura trees grow there. [29] In Brooklyn, New York, the Annual Sakura Matsuri Cherry Blossom Festival takes place in May, at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden. [30] This festivity has been celebrated since 1981, and is one of the Garden's most famous attractions.
Subaru Cherry Blossom Festival of Greater Philadelphia, a spring celebration; The annual Cherry Blossom Festival at Branch Brook Park in Newark, New Jersey; The annual Cherry Blossom Festival in San Francisco, CA ; International Cherry Blossom Festival in Macon, GA; Hanami, a traditional Japanese custom of celebrating the beauty of flowers ...