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Close up on Cherry blossoms Sakura (桜, 櫻) is the Japanese name for the cherry tree and its blossoms. ...
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Scientific classification or biological classification is how biologists group and categorize extinct and living species of organisms. ...
Divisions Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Hepatophyta - liverworts Anthocerophyta - hornworts Bryophyta - mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) Lycopodiophyta - clubmosses Equisetophyta - horsetails Pteridophyta - true ferns Psilotophyta - whisk ferns Ophioglossophyta - adderstongues Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta - seed ferns Pinophyta - conifers Cycadophyta - cycads Ginkgophyta - ginkgo Gnetophyta - gnetae Magnoliophyta - flowering plants Adiantum pedatum (a fern...
Classes Magnoliopsida - Dicots Liliopsida - Monocots The flowering plants (also angiosperms or Magnoliophyta) are one of the major groups of modern plants, comprising those that produce seeds in specialized reproductive organs called flowers, where the ovulary or carpel is enclosed. ...
Orders see text Dicotyledons or dicots are flowering plants whose seed contains two embryonic leaves or cotyledons. ...
Families Rosaceae (rose family) Elaeagnaceae Rhamnaceae (buckthorn family) Ulmaceae (elm family) Celtidaceae Moraceae (mulberry family) Urticaceae (nettle family) Cecropiaceae Cannabaceae (hemp family) Barbeyaceae Dirachmaceae Rosales is an order of flowering plants, including the rose family, Rosaceae. ...
Subfamilies Rosoideae Spiraeoideae Maloideae Amygdaloideae or Prunoideae The Rosaceae or rose family is a large family of plants, with about 3,000-4,000 species in 100-120 genera. ...
Genera Prunus Prinsepia Prunoideae, also called Amygdaloideae, is the subfamily containing the genera Prunus and Prinsepia. ...
Species Prunus alabamensis Prunus alleghaniensis Prunus americana Prunus andersonii Prunus angustifolia Prunus armeniaca Prunus avium Prunus caroliniana Prunus cerasifera Prunus cerasus Prunus domestica Prunus dulcis Prunus emarginata Prunus fasciculata Prunus fremontii Prunus fruticosa Prunus geniculata Prunus glandulosa Prunus gracilis Prunus grayana Prunus havardii Prunus hortulana Prunus ilicifolia Prunus japonica Prunus...
| Prunus serrulata Lindl., the Japanese Cherry, also called Oriental Cherry or East Asian Cherry, is a species of Japanese ornamental cherry tree from the rose family (Rosaceae). Subfamilies Rosoideae Spiraeoideae Maloideae Amygdaloideae or Prunoideae The Rosaceae or rose family is a large family of plants, with about 3,000-4,000 species in 100-120 genera. ...
It is a tree with a short single trunk, with a dense crown reaching a height of about 8 m. The smooth bark has a chestnut-brown color. The simple, ovate-lanceolate leaves are arranged alternately on short petioles. Their margin is serrate or doubly serrate. At the end of autumn, the green leaves give a marvellous display of crimson.
The Japanese Cherry starts blossoming profusely from the first warmer days in April. The pink or white flowers grow in racemose clusters at nodes on short spurs. They are past flowering early in May. Wildflowers A flower is the reproductive organ of those plants classified as angiosperms (flowering plants; Division Magnoliophyta). ...
The fruit is a small, black, globose drupe, growing in racemose clusters. Fruit stall in Barcelona, Spain. ...
The peach is a typical drupe (stone fruit) In botany, a drupe is a type of fruit in which an outer fleshy part (exocarp or skin and mesocarp or flesh) surrounds a shell (the pit or stone) of hardened endocarp with a seed inside. ...
It is usually grafted on to Prunus avaim roots and rarely bears fruit. It is viewed as part of the Japanese custom of Hanami. A hanami party Hanami (花見, lit. ...
There are several varieties :
- Prunus serrulata var. hupehensis (Ingram) Ingram
- Prunus serrulata var. lannesiana (Carrière) Makino : Japanese Late-flowering Cherry.
- Prunus serrulata var. lannesiana f. alba Makino
- Prunus serrulata var. pubescens (Makino) Nakai : Hairy-leaved Mountain Cherry, Korean Mountain Cherry, Chinese Mountain Cherry.
- Prunus serrulatavar. quelpaertensis Uieki : Korean Mountain Cherry
- Prunus serrulata var. serrulata : Chinese Cherry
- Prunus serrulata var. tomentella Nakai : Korean Mountain Cherry
There are numerous cultivars, varying in size and form and in color of flower and leaf.
References
http://web.reed.edu/trees/TreePages/PRUN.html http://www.ces.ncsu.edu/depts/hort/consumer/factsheets/trees-new/prunus_serrulata.html |
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