Over 200 variety of cherry blossom/flower exist. Cherry flower may have one single layer of 5 petals, double layers, or multi layered petals. The color ranging from white, pale pink, pink, red, into yellowish to green color. Some of them have a very nice smell while other just without any smell.
I have tried to find out which variety of cherry in the pictures that I have, but it is really difficult to be sure. So please correct me if I mistakenly called it in different name.
1. Prunus Kanzan (picture taken at Central Park, New York, USA)
2. Prunus lannesiana Albo-rosea (picture taken at Imperial Palace Garden, Tokyo, Japan)
3. Prunus lannesiana Chrysanthemoides (picture taken at Brooklyn Botanical Garden, New York, USA)
4. Prunus lannesiana Hisakura (picture taken at Imperial Palace Garden, Tokyo, Japan)
5. Prunus lannesiana Sekiyama (picture taken at Imperial Palace Garden, Tokyo, Japan)
6. Prunus serrulata Ariake (picture taken at Central Park, New York, USA)
7. Prunus serrulata Hatazakura (picture taken at Brooklyn Botanical Garden, New York, USA)
(picture taken at Central Park, New York, USA)
8. Prunus serrulata Kuramayama (picture taken at Brooklyn Botanical Garden, New York, USA)
9. Prunus serrulata Shogetsu (picture taken at Central Park, New York, USA)
10. Prunus serrulata Taoyame (picture taken at Brooklyn Botanical Garden, New York, USA)
11. Prunus serrulata Ukon (picture taken at Brooklyn Botanical Garden, New York, USA)
12. Prunus Subhirtella Pendula also called Weeping Cherry (picture taken at Brooklyn Botanical Garden, New York, USA)
13. Prunus Takesimensis (picture taken at Central Park, New York, USA)
14. Prunus x dawyckensis (picture taken at Central Park, New York, USA)
15. Shidarezakura (picture taken at Central Park, New York, USA)
16. Red cherry flower (picture taken at Central Park, New York, USA)
This post is open for discussion, please correct me if I named the flower inappropriately! Suggestion is welcome!
References:
A beginner’s guide to cherry blossom viewing: cherry tree varieties, Japan Guide, 2013
Varieties of cherry blossom, Japan National Tourism Organization, 2013
Cherry blossom season, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, 2013
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