During the Blossom Biology workshop on April 11, Douglas Justice introduced us to the different parts of a cherry blossom.
I discovered there are much more to cherry blossoms than the flowers: the bud scales open up and out come the peduncle, the bracts, the pedicels, then the blossoms.
It takes lots of energy for a cherry tree to grow blossoms!
PS Douglas showed us an illustration from a book but since I couldn’t use that illustration, I’ve created my own identification slide using a picture of budding Kanzan cherry blossom.