The Yoshino cherry tree is a deciduous tree that grows quickly ... They are known as drupes and are typically about the size of a pea. Oddly enough, to humans, these fruits tend to have a very ...

4. There are thought to be around 1 million cherry trees in Japan. The single cultivar known as 'Somei Yoshino' represents 80% of all of Japan's cherry trees 5. The oldest cherry tree is thought ...

KOCHI--The city’s Somei-Yoshino cherry trees are now officially in bloom, putting Kochi ahead of the rest of the country in announcing the start of the cherry blossom season. The Kochi Local ...

The agency’s Osaka Regional Headquarters earlier that day confirmed that blossoms had opened on a Somei-Yoshino cherry tree at Osaka Castle Park that has been used to gauge the start of the ...