Japanese flowering cherry

American  

noun

1. any of various ornamental hybrid cherry trees developed in Japan, having white or pink blossoms and inedible fruit.

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Example Sentences

Another great choice is the Japanese flowering cherry hybrid Snow Goose, nicely upright to keep those branches out of the way of cars and pedestrians.

From Washington Post

I’d rather have a Japanese flowering cherry that is later, brighter and more spreading.

From Washington Post

The Japanese flowering cherry trees now in serene flower around the Tidal Basin are, for the most part, clones of a single plant favored in 19th-century Tokyo and named Somei-Yoshino.

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The festival, which boasts blooms from 12 varieties of Japanese flowering cherry trees, is a $150 million tourist bonanza for the city, festival officials have estimated in the past.

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On this vacant lot he had a 25-year-old Busch walnut growing back on the alley, on the lawn was a beautiful Japanese flowering cherry, and there were two pecan trees in the yard proper.

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