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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).
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.
Cherry blossoms (), often simply called blossoms (hana) are a common spring kigo.A kigo (季語, 'season word') is a word or phrase associated with a particular season, used in traditional forms of Japanese poetry.
In botany, blossoms are the flowers of stone fruit trees (genus Prunus) and of some other plants with a similar appearance that flower profusely for a period of time in spring. Colloquially, flowers of orange are referred to as such as well. Peach blossoms (including nectarine), most cherry blossoms, and some almond blossoms are usually pink.
Washington, D.C. Visiting Washington D.C. during peak cherry blossom season (mid-March to early April) should be on everyone's bucket list. Sure, the blossoms are stunning on their own, but they ...
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 ...
The famed cherry blossoms in Washington, D.C., reached peak bloom by March 17 — tied for the second earliest in history. In Rochester, the same dynamics are at play.
The cherry blossoms lining the National Mall in Washington, DC, have hit “peak bloom,” bursting open in an early spring display after a warm winter, the National Park Service announced Sunday.