Somei yoshino

Cerasus ×yedoensis

Japan spring flowers

Location: Copilot
Location: Koishikawa Botanical Garden
Location: Koishikawa Botanical Garden
Location: Kiyosumi Shirakawa
Location: Kyoto Botanical Garden
Location: Koishikawa Botanical Garden
Location: Kiyosumi Shirakawa
Location: Kyoto Botanical Garden
Location: Kyoto Botanical Garden
Location: Kyoto Botanical Garden
Location: Kojimachi
Location: Kojimachi
Location: Kiyosumi Shirakawa
Location: Kiyosumi Shirakawa
Location: Koishikawa Botanical Garden

Flower name
Somei yoshino
Scientific name
Cerasus ×yedoensis
AliasSomeiyoshino, サクラ, Sakura, 桜, ソメイヨシノ
Place of originJapan
Place of floweringFields and footpaths, Garden, Park, Streets, Planting
Flowering seasonApril
Language of flowersApril 1st, Purity, Exquisite Beauty, Spiritual Beauty, Detachment

What is Somei yoshino

Birth flowers for Apr 1

The birth flower for April 1st is Someiyoshino(Cerasus ×yedoensis cv. yedoensis)
A drop of flowers and poetry, one each day. From Kagiken's Flower Guide, we deliver words that bloom softly in your heart.
Aqua (Waterdrop Poetry),Copilot(Illustration), Editing & Translation: Mizuho @Kagiken.

メイヨシノ（染井吉野、学名：Cerasus ×yedoensis cv. yedoensis）
Someiyoshino(Cerasus ×yedoensis cv. yedoensis), Illustration by Copilot.
Note: The Japanese text in the illustration has the same meaning as Aqua's water droplet poem.
Aqua is a water spirit.

💧April 1: A Droplet Poem of the Somei Yoshino Cherry Blossom
　🌸“A Sign of Beginnings”

by Aqua

From the moment they bloom,
they are already preparing to say goodbye.

Yet they bloom
to become someone’s spring.

Every time they dance in the wind,
a single wish
unravels into the sky.

That is the signal of a new beginning.

🌸The Language of Flowers:
Purity, Exquisite Beauty, Spiritual Beauty, Detachment

💧Aqua’s Emotions:
The Somei-Yoshino cherry blossom is a flower that embodies both “beginning and farewell” at the same time.
It is precisely because it knows it will fall the moment it blooms
that this fleeting instant is so beautiful.

April 1st—the day that opens the door to a new season—
it surely isn’t a coincidence that this flower blooms then. 🌸🌅

Someiyoshino

Someiyoshino (Somei Yoshino, scientific name: Cerasus ×yedoensis cv. yedoensis) is a representative variety of "Sakura ,cherry blossom(scientific name: Cerasus L.)" a deciduous tall tree belonging to the cherry family Rosaceae
that represents spring in Japan. In Japan, where there is no national flower, it follows the national flower.

The blooming of the cherry tree is observed at weather stations throughout Japan, signaling the arrival of spring. Somei-Yoshino is a hybrid of Oshima-zakura (scientific name: Cerasus speciosa) '
and 'Edohigan(Cerasus itosakura f. ascendens）',
and was spread throughout Japan from Somei (now Komagome) in Tokyo in the early Meiji period.

The bark is black. In April, before the leaves come out, four to five light pink five-petaled flowers are borne in bunches
on diffuse inflorescences extending from the branches. The flowers bloom en masse in the absence of leaves,
and their flamboyant and gentle colors suit people's tastes, and hanami (cherry blossom viewing) events are held throughout Japan.

The flowers also fall at once, and are popular for their good dispersal. It is called "sakura fubuki" (cherry blossom snowstorm).
The autumn leaves are also beautiful in fall. However, due to its susceptibility to the "witch's broom",
it has been giving up its position to the later-emerging "'Jindai-akebono(Prunus x yedoensis 'Jindai-akebono'） and
"Komatsu-otome(Cerasus spachiana cv. Komatsu-otome）".
The language of flowers is "purity" and "outstanding beauty.

Common name: Someiyoshino,
scientific name: Cerasus ×yedoensis cv. yedoensis,
origin: Japan,
tree height: ~12 m, trunk diameter: 1 m, life form: deciduous tall tree,
leaf color: green, leaf length 7-11 cm, leaf width: 4-7 cm, leaf shape: oval, leaf margin: sharp heavily serrated,
flower diameter: 2-3 cm, medium, single flower, flower color: pink to white.

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