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Flowering Yoshino Cherry Tree
A flowering branch from a Yoshino cherry tree.
The Yoshino cherry tree ( Prunus yedoensis) is a round-topped, wide-spreading tree that reaches somewhere between 30 and 50 feet at maturity. Yoshinos have white, single, five-petal blossoms in clusters of two to five, and are almond-scented. This hybrid cherry of unknown Japanese origin was first noticed in Tokyo about 1872, and is now one of the favorite cultivated cherry trees of Japan.
In the U.S. however, Yoshinos are best known for being the predominant species that encircle the Tidal Basin in Wash., D.C., drawing thousands of tourists every year for their annual spring bloom. (Date of Image: April 2005)
Credit: Photo by Alex Lee
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