These are some of the cultivars you can find in the Vancouver area. Where there is a round media player button, you can click to hear the Japanese pronunciation. You can find Vancouver locations for these cultivars on Blossom Maps, and many photos at documented locations in our UBC Botanical Garden Forum.
Accolade
Afterglow
Akebono
Ama-no-gawa
Atsumori
Autumnalis Rosea
Avium ‘Plena’
Beni-shidare
Birch Bark Cherry
Choshu-hizakura
Fudan-zakura
Gyoiko
Hosokawa-nioi
Ichihara-tora-no-o
Ichiyo
Ito-kukuri
Ito-zakura
Jo-nioi
Jugatsu-zakura
Kanzan
Kiku-shidare-zakura
Kiku-zakura
Korean Hill Cherry
Mikuruma-gaeshi
O-yama-zakura
Ojochin
Okame
Oshima-zakura
Pandora
Pink Perfection
Rancho
Sargent Hybrid Cherry
Schmitt Cherry
Sendai-shidare
Shiro-fugen
Shirotae
Shogetsu
Shosar
Shujaku
Snofozam
Snow Goose
Somei-yoshino
Spire
Star Cherry
Tai-haku
Takasago
Taki-nioi
Ukon
Umineko
Washi-no-o
Whitcomb
Yae-beni-shidare
Yama-zakura
Yokihi
Thanks to Douglas Justice of UBC Botanical Garden for the cherry tree descriptions and to Cherry Scout Mariko Izaki for the pronunciations. And thanks to all the official and unofficial Cherry Scouts who have posted photos on our forums, from which the photos here were selected.
Bibliography: Hillier, H.G., P.H.B. Gardener and Roy Lancaster. 1991. Hillier Manual of Trees and Shrubs, 6th ed. Newton Abbot, England. Jacobson, A.L. 1996. North American Landscape Trees. Ten Speed Press, Seattle, Washington. Kuitert, W. 1999. Japanese Flowering Cherries, Timber Press, Portland, Oregon. Lord, A. (ed.) 2003. RHS Plant Finder. 2003-2004. Dorling Kindersley, London.