Are cherry blossoms in spring or summer?

Cherry blossoms often bloom in March with or after leaves. With the change of seasons, cherry blossoms are fragrant and gorgeous, and are often used for garden viewing.

Sakura (scientific name: Sakura? Species): It is the general name of several plants of the genus Sakura in Rosaceae. In the newly revised name of Flora of China, it specifically refers to "Tokyo Sakura", also known as "Japanese Sakura".

There are many kinds of cherry blossoms, more than 300 in number. There are about 150 wild cherry blossoms in the world, and there are more than 50 in China. Among the wild ancestors of about 40 cherry plants in the world, 33 are native to China. Others are varieties derived from horticultural hybridization.

Cherry blossoms are native to the temperate zone around the Himalayas in the northern hemisphere and grow all over the world, mainly in Japan. Each branch has 3 to 5 flowers, which are umbrella-shaped, with notches at the top of petals, mostly white and pink. Flowers often bloom in March with or after leaves. With the change of seasons, cherry blossoms are fragrant and gorgeous, and are often used for garden viewing. Cherry blossoms can be divided into single petals and compound petals. A single petal can blossom and bear fruit, and most of the compound petals do not bear fruit.

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1, Sakura Tokyo

Tokyo cherry blossoms (scientific name: cherry blossoms? (Matsum。 ) Yu Dengli): arbor, 4- 16m high, with gray bark. Branchlets are purplish brown, glabrous, shoots are green and sparsely pilose. Winter buds are oval and hairless.

Leaf blade elliptic-ovate or obovate, dark green above, glabrous, light green below, sparsely pilose along veins. Inflorescence umbrella-shaped, peduncle is very short, with 3-4 flowers, the first leaf is open, and the flower diameter is 3-3.5 cm; Petals are white or pink, oval-ovate, concave at the apex, and completely divided; Stamens ca. 32, shorter than petals; Style base sparsely pilose. Drupe is nearly spherical, with a diameter of 0.7- 1 cm, black and slightly ribbed on the stone surface. It blooms in April and bears fruit in May. 2n= 16 .

2, Yoshino Sakura dyed well

Yoshinoya Sakura (scientific name: Prunus × yedoensis), also known as Tokyo Sakura, Japan Sakura (the name of Abraham's seed plant) and Sakura (the handbook of economic plants), is a horticultural variety of Sakura, belonging to the subgenera of Prunus in Rosaceae, and distributed in Japan, Chinese mainland, Beijing, Changchun, Xi, Qingdao and South China.

At present, there are many hypotheses about its origin, but there is no definite theory. It is generally believed that it may be the result of hybridization between big cherry and black cherry plum. However, according to the results of genetic analysis, some scholars believe that Yoshino Sakura was produced by the cross between Oshima Sakura and Komatsu Sakura. Most blooming flowers are translucent light pink.

3. Mountain cherry blossoms

Mountain cherry blossoms (scientific name: cherry blossoms? (Lindl。 ) G. Don ex London): arbor, 3-8 meters high, with grayish brown or grayish black bark. Branchlets grayish white or brownish, glabrous. Winter buds are oval and hairless. Leaf blade elliptic or obovate-elliptic, dark green above, hairless, light green below, hairless.

Inflorescence umbellate or subumbellate, with 2-3 flowers; The involucral bracts are brownish red and obovate-oblong; Petals are white, thin pink, obovate, and the apex is concave; Stamens ca. 38; Style glabrous. Drupe spherical or ovoid, purple-black. The flowering period is April-May and the fruiting period is June-July.