Trees of Japan: The Tokyo Cherry (Somei-yoshino)

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Somei-yoshino

Somei-yoshino

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Tokyo Cherry or somei yoshino is the most common cherry blossom flower you will see everywhere in towns and cities. It emerged from a single batch of plantings in 1872 in a nursery in Somei, Sugamo-Tokyo.

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