Beautiful blooms and sweeping canopies make the Yoshino cherry tree, also known as the Prunus × yedoensis, the star of any ...

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 ...

The Yoshino cherry tree is a deciduous tree that grows quickly ... As birds feed on the fruits, they disperse the seeds, which aid in the propagation of the tree. By eating harmful insects ...

Out of all the places in Japan to see cherry blossoms, the town of Yoshino, in Nara Prefecture, just might be the very best. That’s because there are more than 30,000 sakura trees on the slopes of ...

“This is how you always plant a tree,” Biden said, laughing about their shoes as she and Kishida shoveled soil around the base of a Yoshino cherry tree sapling on the south grounds. She ...

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 ...