(Prunus serrulata) — Japanese Flowering Cherries

A wide range of hybrid cherries of Far Eastern origin introduced from mid-Victorian times on, and distinguished from most other flowering cherries by leaves with whisker-tipped teeth and flowers on branched stalks. Japanese Cherries always have flowers in large separate clusters, whereas most other cherries have more evenly distributed flowers.

Pink-flowered cherries include:
  ‘Kanzan’, the commonest variety, a funnel-shaped tree with large double flowers
  ‘Pink Perfection’, very similar to ‘Kanzan’
  ‘Amanogawa’, a common pale-pink flowered fastigiate cultivar
  ‘Kiku-shidare-zakura’ (Cheal's Weeping Cherry) with very double pink flowers which form distinctive globular clusters

White-flowered cherries include:
  ‘Tai Haku’ (Great White Cherry) with very large single white flowers
  ‘Shirotae’ with semi-double flowers and green new leaves at the beginning of the Japanese Cherry flowering season
  ‘Shogetsu’ with double flowers on very long stalks, opening from pink buds among green young leaves
  ‘Shirofugen’ with double flowers and maroon young leaves at the end of the Japanese Cherry flowering season

The rather yellowish-flowered ‘Ukon’ is also common

 
 

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