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The shape of cherry blossoms

Cherry blossoms, other famous cherry blossoms. It belongs to Rosaceae, a deciduous tree. Bark is purple-brown, smooth and shiny, with horizontal stripes.

Leaves alternate, ovoid or obovate-elliptic, with awn teeth at the edge, sharp and glandular at the apex, dark green shiny surface and slightly pale back. Stipules are needle-shaped, with serrated edges and glands at the crack end. Each branch has three to five flowers, which are umbrella-shaped, the sepals are horizontally spread, and the petals are notched, white and red. March flowers bloom with the leaves open or behind them. The nucleus is spherical, red at first, then purple-brown, and mature in July.

Colors are red, pink, vermilion, bright red, white and pinkish white. Korean cherries are white, Japanese cherries are colored and China cherries are pink.

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Cherry tree is 4- 16 meters, and its bark is gray. Branchlets purple-brown, glabrous, green branches, sparsely pilose. Winter buds are oval and hairless.

The leaves are elliptic, ovoid or obovate, 5-12cm long and 2.5-7cm wide, with tapering or abrupt tail at the top, round and thin wedge at the base, heavy teeth with tapering tips, dark green at the top of small glands and light green at the bottom, with 7- 10 pairs of sparse pubescence along the veins; Petiole 1.3- 1.5 cm, densely pilose, apex 1-2 gland or gland sometimes absent; Stipules glandular feathers lanceolate dehiscent teeth, pubescent, caducous.

Umbellies are racemose, pedicels are short, with 3-4 flowers, leaves open in front, and flower diameters are 3-3.5 cm; Bracts brown, elliptic-ovate, 6-7 mm, 4-5 mm wide, puberulent on both sides; Bracts brown, spatulate-oblong, ca. 5 mm, 2-3 mm wide, while glands; Pedicel 2-2.5 cm, pubescent; Calyx tubular, 7-8 mm long and 3 mm wide, sparsely short and flexible; Sepals triangular-oblong, ca. 5 mm long, apex acuminate, with glandular teeth on the edge; Petals are white or pink, oval, concave at the top, and completely divided; Stamens ca. 32, shorter than petals; Style base sparsely pilose.

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Cherry blossoms are Rosaceae plants. At first, there were only nine wild species. After hybrid planting, they have evolved into hundreds of varieties.

Yoshino is the most common cherry blossom in Japan. 19th century, developed by gardeners in Edo (formerly known as Tokyo). Since there are no seeds, they must rely on artificial cultivation to reproduce. The life span is about 50 years.

Main cherry blossom viewing places: Ueno Park (Taitung District, Tokyo), Zhigeng Temple (Dongshan District, Kyoto City), Hirosaki Castle (Hirosaki City, Aomori Prefecture), etc.

On the other side of Edo are wild cherry blossoms. Long life, can grow into a tree of 15-25m Takaso. Yoshino Morii is a mixture of "the other side of Edo" and "Oshima Sakura". Many representative ancient trees in Japan are on the other side of Edo.

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