April 24, 2022. Our cherries have no idea that we’ve passed the festival’s end date. These ‘Kiku-zakura’ are just starting to shine. The name appropriately means “chrysanthemum cherry”. We are more familiar with a weeping cultivar with similar flowers, but these fairly small trees have a distinctive goblet structure. As the flowering develops, they will also have distinctive two-story flowers. These rare flowers are much smaller than ‘Kanzan’ and they have many more petals.
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