Yoshino Cherry
Prunus × yedoensis · Rosaceae · 소메이요시노벚나무
How to spot it
White flowers grow in clusters, and the large gland at the tip of the leaf stalk often touches the base or edge of the blade.
(original photo, new tab)Leaf · Photo David J. Stang · CC BY-SA 4.0 
(original photo, new tab)Leaf · Photo Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0 
(original photo, new tab)Bark · Photo PumpkinSky · CC BY-SA 4.0 
(original photo, new tab)Bark · Photo Famartin · CC BY-SA 4.0
Look
- Leaves
- Alternate, elliptic simple leaves with toothed margins.
- Flowers
- White flowers grow in clusters and have a faint almond scent.
- Fruit
- Small black drupes about 1.3 cm across.
- Bark
- Glossy bark with distinct horizontal lenticels.
Where it grows
- In Korea
- Planted (Bundang, Seongnam)
- Ecology
- The fruit attracts birds, and the tree is recorded as a host plant for butterfly larvae.
Stories
Sources
- NC State Extension Gardener Plant Toolbox
- 한병우 외(2022), 국내 벚나무류 식재 현황: 분당중앙공원 일대 사례연구, 식물분류학회지 52(1):54–63
- Frontiers in Plant Science (2019), doi:10.3389/fpls.2019.01555
- Kew Plants of the World Online — Prunus × yedoensis
- Utah State University TreeBrowser — Cherry, Yoshino (Prunus × yedoensis)
- 한병우 외 (2022), 국내 벚나무류(Prunus subg. Cerasus) 식재 현황: 분당중앙공원 일대 사례연구, 식물분류학회지 52(1):54–63
- 미국 국립공원관리청 — History of the Cherry Trees
- 경향신문 '"제주 왕벚나무, 일본 왕벚나무와 뚜렷이 구분"…유전체 첫 해독' (2018-09-13, 이종섭 기자)