What does the latest cherry tree look like?

Cherry blossom tree is the general name of several species of cherry genus in Rosaceae, which belongs to deciduous small trees. There are generally early cherry, evening cherry, weeping cherry, Yunnan cherry and other varieties in China. Late cherry is widely used in domestic planting and landscaping, and can be planted into forests in groups. It can also be planted on hillsides, courtyards, roadsides and in front of buildings. According to textual research, cherry blossoms were cultivated in Chinese palaces during the Qin and Han dynasties more than two thousand years ago, and they generally appeared in private courtyards in the Tang Dynasty. At that time, Japanese worshippers brought cherry blossoms back to Japan. It has a history of more than 1000 years in Japan.

The cherry blossom tree is 416 meters high and its bark is gray. Branchlets purplish brown, glabrous, twigs green, sparsely pilose. Winter buds ovoid, glabrous. Leaf blade elliptic-ovate or Obovate, 5-12 cm long and 2.5-7 cm wide, apex acuminate or cuspidate, base rounded, sparsely cuneate, edge acutely doubly serrate, tooth tip acuminate, with small glands, dark green above, glabrous, light green below, sparsely pilose along veins, lateral veins 7-10 pairs, petiole 1.3-1.5 cm long, densely pilose, tip with 1 glandular or sometimes glandless glands Stipules lanceolate, pinnatifid, pilose, caducous.

The inflorescence of the cherry tree is umbellate, the total stem is very short, with 3-4 flowers, the first leaves open, and the flowers are 3-3.5 cm in diameter. Involucral bracts brown, elliptic-ovate, 6-7 mm long and 4-5 mm wide, both surfaces sparsely pilose. Bracts brown, spatulate-oblong, ca. 5 mm long, 2-3 mm wide, margin glandular. Pedicel 2 × 2.5 cm long, pubescent. Calyx tube tubular, 7-8 mm long, ca. 3 mm wide, sparsely pilose. Sepals triangular-long-ovate, ca. 5 mm, apex acuminate, margin glandular toothed. Petals white or pink, elliptic-ovate, apex depressed, entire bifid. Stamens ca. 32, shorter than petals. Style sparsely pilose at base. Drupe subglobose, black, nuclear surface slightly ribbed. Flowering in April and fruiting in May.

Cherry trees are native to the temperate Himalayas of the Northern Hemisphere, including Japan, northern India, the Yangtze River Basin of China, Taiwan and North Korea. It is cultivated all over the world, especially the Japanese cherry blossoms. There are more than 200 varieties of cherry blossoms in the world. China's cherry trees are mainly distributed in Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, Fujian, Shandong, Jiangxi, Beijing, Tianjin, Hubei, Shanxi and other places.

Cherry blossom trees are temperate and subtropical tree species, which are sexually fond of sunshine and warm and humid climatic conditions, and have a certain ability to resist cold. The requirement of soil is not strict, it is suitable to grow in loose, fertile and well-drained sandy loam, but it is not resistant to saline-alkali soil. The root system is shallow, avoid stagnant water low-lying land. It has a certain degree of cold and drought resistance, but it is weak against smoke and wind, so it is not suitable to plant coastal areas with typhoons.

Cherry blossom tree is an important flowering tree species in early spring, which is widely used in gardens. Can be planted in groups into forests, can also be planted on hillsides, courtyards, roadsides, in front of buildings. When it is in full bloom, the flowers are colorful, the trees are in full bloom, such as clouds and clouds, it is very spectacular. Can be planted in large areas to create a "sea of flowers" landscape, can be embellished in the green space to form a brocade, can also be planted alone, forming a "red in the green" painting meaning. It can also be used as path trees, hedges or bonsai.