The characteristics and symbols of cherry blossoms

Another name for cherry blossoms

Cherry blossom, alias mountain cherry blossom, also known as fairy cherry blossom, Fukushima Sakura, green cherry, bauhinia. A plant of the cherry subgenus Rosaceae.

Morphological characteristics of Cherry Blossom

The bark of cherry blossoms is purple-brown, smooth, glossy and striated. Flowers and leaves alternate, leaf blade oval or Obovate-elliptic, margin Awned teeth, apex pointed and glands, surface dark green, glossy, slightly light back. Stipules lanceolate-linear, margin lobed serrate, glandular at the end of the lobe. Each flower has three or five flowers, into an umbrella, the sepals spread horizontally, and the petals are notched at the apex, white, red and pink. Flowers bloom with or after leaves in March.

The living habits of cherry blossoms

Cherry blossoms like the sun, like the warm and humid climate, do not have strict requirements on the soil, the deep and fertile sandy soil grows best, the root system is shallow, and the resistance to smoke, harmful gases and sea tide wind is weak. Intolerant to saline-alkali soil. The root system is shallow, avoid stagnant water low-lying land. Have a certain degree of cold and drought resistance, but weak resistance to smoke and wind. The cherry blossoms are extremely beautiful, full of trees in full bloom in full bloom, such as clouds and clouds. They are famous ornamental flowers and trees blooming in early spring.

Variety classification of cherry blossoms

Common species of cherry blossoms

1. Japanese cherry blossoms. Dry skin dark gray, leaves elliptic, apex acuminate or caudal, margin doubly serrate with awn-shaped apiculus, teeth glandular, upper petiole with 2 glands, stipules strip, glandular teeth, flowers multiple, white, pink or rose, drupe globose, ca. 1 cm in diameter, purple-black when ripe, this species has two varieties: ① rosy Japanese cherry blossoms, double, large, rose red; ② pink Japanese cherry blossoms, double, medium, pink.

2. Mountain Sakura. Also known as green skin cherry. Dried millet brown, the leaves are mostly oval-lanceolate, the apex is often caudate, the margin is pointed single-serrated or double-serrated, the tooth end has a glandular prickly awn, the leaf surface is pale green and smooth, the back is slightly covered with midrib hairy, and the young leaves are often brown. Petiole has 2-4 glands, flowers single or double, white or pink, fruit ovoid, black when ripe, may be native to China, wild in the mountains of North China, rapid growth, strong sprouting power, smoke resistance, often used as a cherry rootstock, nucleolus can be used as medicine.

3. Cold Sakura. The flowers are small and reddish single-layer petals, and if the climate is warmer, the cherry blossoms that will blossom around mid-January, so the other name is hot sea cherry, it is speculated that it should be a mixture of cold cherry and mountain cherry.

4. Cold Sakura of Xiushan Temple. The medium-sized, reddish-purple single-layer petals grow in the cherry blossoms in the courtyard of the Zen Temple on the Izu Peninsula and are presumed to be a mixture of cold cherry and Oshima cherry.

5. Cold Sakura. The size of the flowers is small, deep red-purple single-layer petals. Taiwan also has wild cherry blossoms, so it is also known as Taiwan Sakura and Sakura. The flowers are in the shape of a fishing bell and show a special feeling when merged with them.

6. Hejin Sakura The flowers are medium-sized, reddish-purple monolayer petals, grown in early spring cherry blossoms in Hejin, Izu Peninsula, and are presumed to be a mixture of cold cherry and Oshima cherry.

7. Sakura Oshima. The size of the flower is large, white single-layer petals, growing in Izu Seven Island and Fangzong Peninsula and other places. For the wild cherry blossoms with strong sea breeze, the cherry leaves used in the cherry cakes are the leaves of this kind of cherry blossoms.

8. Daisy cherry. Small flowers, like white chrysanthemum petals, grow in the Odin cherry series of small cherry blossoms at the Miyan Shrine in Xinyi County, with more than 100 species of precious and rare cherry blossoms.

9. American Sakura. The flower is a medium-sized, reddish single-layer petal, which was originally called Shu from Yoshino Yoshino seeds in the United States, but the name was changed to the present name because there is already a cherry blossom of the same name in Japan.

10. Sakura is hung on several beads in Meihou Temple. The flowers are large in size, like reddish chrysanthemum petals. The cherry blossoms, which are said to be related to the people of Zhenluan, have been designated as national natural monuments at the Meihou Temple in Jingase Village, Niigata County.

11. Cold Sakura. The flowers are medium-sized, reddish single-layer petals, growing in the cherry blossoms of Anhang, Saitama County, also known as Anhang cold cherry, which blossoms about a week earlier than the beautiful cherry blossoms in Yoshino.

12, and six garden chrysanthemum cherry. The flowers are large in size, like reddish chrysanthemum petals, growing in Jinze and six gardens of cherry blossoms, with more than 300 petals.

October Sakura. The flowers are medium-sized, reddish multi-layered petals, begin to blossom around October, and bloom again the next spring, precious cherry blossoms that bloom twice a year.

14. Nara Hachong Sakura. The flowers are medium-sized and reddish with multi-layer petals, belonging to the Xiazhou family. The cherry trees growing in Nara City's contentment Institute have been designated as national natural monuments.

15. The other side of Edo The size of the flowers is small, reddish single-layer petals, this kind of cherry blossoms have a very long life, such as the mountain high god on behalf of Sakura (Wuchuan Village, Yamanashi County) and the light ink cherry in Genwei Valley (Genwei Village, Qibu County), all of which are presumed to have lived for more than 1000 years.

16. Winter cherry. The cherry blossoms, which bloom twice a year (spring and autumn), are medium-sized, white and single-layer petals. A considerable number of these cherry blossoms have been planted in Yingshan Park in Gushi-cho, Gunma County, of which "Winter Sakura of Sanbochuan" is the most famous.

17. Yongyuan Temple. The flowers are large and white multi-layer petals, growing in the cherry blossoms in the courtyard of Yongyuan Temple in Shiga County.

18. The tail of the city's original tiger. The medium-sized, reddish multi-layer petals grow in the original cherry blossoms in Zuojing District, Beijing. Because the branches extend very long, and the flowers grow densely like a tiger tail, Otani named it the tail of the original tiger.

19. Too white. The flowers are large and white single-layer petals. The cherry blossoms given to Japan by British cherry blossom researchers in 1932 have become extinct in Japan. Taibai is named after the Duke of the Yuan Dynasty.

20. The royal clothes are yellow. The size of the flower is medium-sized, green-yellow multi-layer petals, widely known since ancient times, with rare colors of cherry blossoms.

21. Songyue The flowers are large and reddish with multi-layer petals. The cherry blossoms, formerly grown in Tokyo's Arakawa dike, are a very beautiful eight-fold cherry.

22. Sister back. The large red multi-layered petals are the size of the flowers. The cherry blossoms at the Hirano Shrine in Kyoto get their name because they have two pistils and bear two knot.

23. Guanshan The flower size is large, crimson multi-layer petals, the representative variety of octave cherry, is also widely planted in Europe and the United States, in addition, the salted petals of this cherry blossom are also used in cherry blossom soup.

Common cultivated varieties of cherry blossoms

1. Cherry blossoms, deciduous trees. It is about 525 meters high. The bark is dark chestnut brown, smooth and shiny, with horizontal striations. Branchlets glabrous. Leaves ovate to ovate-elliptic, margin Awned semi-mature teeth, both surfaces glabrous. Corymbose or raceme, flowers white or pale pink. Diameter 2.5~4cm, flowering from April to May. Ribs globose, black, ripe in July.

two。 Japanese evening cherry, about 10m high, with light gray bark. Leaves Obovate, margin with long awn-shaped teeth; flowers simple or double, pendulous, pink or nearly white, fragrant, 2-or 5-flowered, flowering in April.

3. Japanese morning cherry, a small tree, about 5m high, bark striated, old bark. Branchlets brown, leaves Obovate to ovate-lanceolate. The pollen is red, with a diameter of 2 × 2.5 cm and 5 umbels, which blossom before the leaves in spring.

4. Dashan cherry, 1220 m high, brown bark, purplish brown branchlets, oval-shaped leaves. The pollen is red, 2-4 flowers are clustered, diameter 3~5cm, florescence is 3-4 months.

5. Yunnan cherry blossoms, about 10m high, brown bark, purple-brown branchlets, elliptic-ovate or Obovate leaves, margin with double teeth. The pollen is red to crimson, 2-5 flowers are clustered, and the florescence is 2-3 months.

6. Family cherry blossoms, about 25m high, light brown bark, green branchlets, long oval to lanceolate leaves, pollen red, flowering from January to January of the following year.

7. Mountain cherry blossoms: wild, small, single, white or pink, pedicels and flowers glabrous.

8. Hairy cherry blossoms: the appearance is basically the same as the mountain cherry blossoms, but its leaves, stalks and flowers are all hairy.

9. Double white cherry blossom: White, double, main cultivated variety.

10. Double red cherry blossom: pink, double.

11. Red and white cherry blossoms: light red, double.

twelve。 Magnificent cherry blossoms: light red flowers, straight petals, large flowers and long pedicels.

13. Drooping cherry blossoms: pink, double, branches open and drooping.

The language of cherry blossoms

The language of cherry blossoms-life. According to legend, the cherry blossoms used to be only white, and the heroic samurai chose to have a caesarean section under the beloved cherry tree. Because when a samurai thinks he has achieved the glory of life, he will choose to end his life. So there was a river of blood under the cherry trees, and the cherry blossoms blossomed red from then on. The redder the petals of cherry blossoms, the more souls there are under the tree, and the more it embodies the "spirit of Japan."

The language of cherry blossoms is warm, pure and noble. The life of cherry blossoms is very short. In Japan, there is a saying: "Cherry blossoms for 7 days", that is, a cherry blossom lasts about 7 days from blooming to withering, and the whole cherry tree blossoms for about 16 days, forming the characteristics of cherry blossoms blooming and falling. It is this feature that makes cherry blossoms so attractive. It is respected as the national flower, not only because of its charm and charm, but also because of its "heroic" which withered immediately after a short period of brilliance. The Japanese believe that life is short, and life is as brilliant, pure and beautiful as cherry blossoms. Even if you die, you should leave decisively. When the cherry blossoms wither and fall, they are clean and clean, and are respected as a symbol of the Japanese spirit.

The same cherry blossoms mean different things.

Cherry blossom language: life, happiness, never give up, life only love you, the law of fate is a cycle, waiting for you to come back.

Mountain Sakura: smile at you and have a beautiful spirit.

Western cherry blossoms: kind education.

Winter cherry blossoms: the mystery of the East.

Double cherry blossoms: quiet / pure.

Primrose: youth / there is no other love but you.

Mountain cherry blossoms: pure / noble / thin.