April 9, 2025 ‘Snow Goose’ has very white buds and flowers, with large long green sepals on the back that result in distinctively broad stars seen from the front of backlit flowers. The tree shape is also distinctive – quite narrow when young, broadening as the trees age, with upright branches curving outward at the tips of the branches on older trees. There is no observable way to distinguish these from the older ‘Umineko’, a cultivar created from the same parent trees.
