Cherry blossom
Sakura or cherry blossom is the Japanese name for cherry trees, and their blossoms. In English, the word "sakura" is equivalent to the Japanese flowering cherry, and their blossoms are commonly called cherry blossoms. Cherry fruit (known in Japanese as sakuranbo) comes from another species of tree.
Natural history
Sakura is indigenous to many Asian states including: China, India, Japan, and Korea. Japan has a wide variety of sakura; well over 200 cultivars can be found there.
Sakura is indigenous to many Asian states including: China, India, Japan, and Korea. Japan has a wide variety of sakura; well over 200 cultivars can be found there.
Cherry blossom in other countries
Philippines
A province in Western Philippines, Palawan, serves as home to an endemic Palawan Cherry Blossoms, which appears to resemble that of Japan's, thus the name.
Canada
Vancouver, BC is famous for its thousands of cherry blossom trees lining many streets and in many parks, including Queen Elizabeth Park and Stanley Park. Vancouver holds the annual Vancouver Cherry Blossom Festival every year. High Park in Toronto, ON features many Somei-Yoshino cherry trees that were given to Toronto by Japan in 1959. Through the Sakura Project, the Japanese Embassy donated a further 34 cherry trees to High Park in 2001, plus cherry trees to various other locations like Exhibition Place, McMaster University and the University of Toronto's main and Scarborough campuses.
Flower viewing
During the Heian Period (794–1191), the Japanese nobility sought to emulate many practices from China including the social phenomenon of flower for viewing, where the imperial households, poets, singers, and other aristocrats would gather and celebrate under the blossoms. In Japan, cherry trees were planted and cultivated for their beauty, for the adornment of the grounds of the nobility of Kyoto, at least as early as 794. In China, the ume "plum" tree was held in highest regard, but by the middle of the ninth century, the sakura had replaced the plum as the favored species in Japan.
During the Heian Period (794–1191), the Japanese nobility sought to emulate many practices from China including the social phenomenon of flower for viewing, where the imperial households, poets, singers, and other aristocrats would gather and celebrate under the blossoms. In Japan, cherry trees were planted and cultivated for their beauty, for the adornment of the grounds of the nobility of Kyoto, at least as early as 794. In China, the ume "plum" tree was held in highest regard, but by the middle of the ninth century, the sakura had replaced the plum as the favored species in Japan.
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