When do the cherry blossoms bloom?

Cherry blossom is the general name of several plants of the genus Rosaceae. It is native to the temperate Himalayan region of the northern hemisphere and grows all over the world, mainly in Japan. There are 3 to 5 flowers in each branch, forming umbels, petals are engraved at the apex, and the flowers are mostly white and pink. Let's take a look at when the cherry blossoms will bloom.

When do the cherry blossoms bloom?

The cherry blossoms usually blossom in April, the inflorescences are umbrella-shaped and bear fruit in May. The drupe is nearly spherical and the flowering period is very short, usually four to ten days. Its beauty lies in the enthusiasm when it is in full bloom, but also in the noble, pure and decisive heroic scene when it falls after it is in full bloom. The colors of cherry blossoms are red, pink, scarlet, brilliant red, white, pink and white. Korean cherry is more white, Japanese cherry is colorful, and Chinese cherry is pink.

What is the language of cherry blossoms?

Cherry blossoms are a symbol of love and hope, representing elegant, simple and pure love. Cherry blossoms are like those of ignorant girls, blooming quietly in spring, and the trees of white and pink cherry blossoms are the most beautiful language for telling love to lovers. Someone in my heart, like the lonely cherry blossom rain, slowly disappears in the depths of time, leaving eternal memories.

Common varieties of cherry blossoms

1. Tokyo cherry blossoms: the bark of Tokyo cherry blossoms is purple-brown, smooth and glossy, with horizontal lines. 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.

2. Yoshino Sakura: Sakura is a horticultural variety of cherry blossoms and a deciduous tree with a height of about 5 to 12 meters. The flower has five petals. The color of the flower is reddish when it first blooms and gradually turns white when it is fully blooming. Because it is artificial breeding, it can not reproduce naturally, so it can only be transplanted by cuttings, which is the same as Yoshino cherry petals in shape and color, and can bloom and wither at the same time. The flowering period in the Kanto area of Japan is about the end of March to early April.

3. Cold cherry: cold cherry is also known as scarlet cherry, bell cherry, Fujian mountain cherry, etc., as the name implies, red cherry blossoms bloom in the cold early spring. Cold Sakura may indeed be the earliest cherry blossom in mainland China in a year. It usually blossoms in mid-February. Its Chinese and Latin names indicate that the inflorescences are like long bells strung together.

4. Mountain cherry blossoms: mountain cherry blossoms are one of the most widely introduced cherry blossoms in China. They are popular in Japan and all over the world because of their diverse colors and long flowering period. The original variety of mountain cherry blossoms is single. Chinese mainland is wild from the south of the Yangtze River to the northeast, to the Korean Peninsula and Japan, but it is not as common as its variety, Japanese evening cherry. There are many horticultural varieties of Japanese evening cherry, including pure white, pink, dark pink to light yellow and light green, new young leaves also have their own modality, from yellow-green, reddish brown to purplish red, and petals have single, semi-double to double petals. The production of each late cherry variety is the result of careful breeding.

5. Weeping cherry blossoms: weeping cherry blossoms is a variety, also known as weeping branches and big leaves early cherry or big leaf early cherry. Most of the cherry blossoms introduced into China grow upward or stretch out. Early cherry trees with weeping branches and big leaves are the same as most cherry blossoms at the initial stage of growth, but after reaching a certain height, the big branches grow horizontally, and the branchlets are erect or drooping, forming weeping willow-like cherry branches, similar in shape to Robinia pseudoacacia. The light red and white flowers of early cherry trees with large leaves and tight shape, coupled with the tranquil and elegant feeling brought by the characteristics of hanging branches, are often praised by the Japanese as the most beautiful cherry blossoms.

6. Yunnan cherry blossoms: Yunnan morning cherry blossoms, also known as safflower high-pot cherry blossoms, bloom first and then leaves, deep red flowers, about 25 petals, about 2.5 cm in diameter, flowers are half-blooming, drooping, sepals red. The young leaves are brown, flowering from the end of February to the first ten days of March. This kind of cherry blossom is native to Yunnan and is also distributed in Nepal, Bhutan and Burma. It was first widely cultivated in Kunming, Yunnan, and extended to the major cherry blossom planting places in the country since the 1980s. Most of the safflower high-pot cherry flowers are semidouble, dark pink to red, dense as clouds, blooming at the end of February in early spring, almost at the same time as Sakura.

7. The other side of Edo: the other side of Edo can grow into trees about 15 to 25 meters high. Yoshino Yoshino is a mixture of "the other side of Edo" and "Oshima Sakura". Many of the representative ancient trees in Japan are on the other side of Edo. The shape of the calyx tube is very characteristic, and the lower part of the garden is bulged into a pot shape. It blossoms earlier and gets this name because it blossoms in spring stages. Petals about 1 cm long, flowers are pure white, reddish purple, but light red is more common. This kind of cherry tree is very strong, the tree age is long, many are as high as 15 to 20 meters of big trees. The flowering period is late March (Tokyo), mid-April (Sendai, Kanazawa), late April to early May (Morioka).