Cerasus serrulata Seed

LATIN NAME: CERASUS SERRULATA

COMMON NAME: Japanese Flowering Cherry

The Japanese flowering cherry froths the small, deciduous tree with the oval, toothed leaves and the dense clusters of the double, pale-pink or white flowers that open through the spring, the flowers frothing the bare branches before the leaves, the small, black cherries following. The tree grows steadily into the wide-spreading, graceful crown, and it likes the sun, and the deep, moist, well-drained soil.

Scientific Research & Plant Biotechnology

The spring blossom of the Japanese flowering cherry gives it a recognised place in the research on the ornamental flowering trees of the great cherry group, and the serrulata species appears in the studies of the pre-leaf bloom and the blossom chemistry. The work looks at the way the double flowers froth the bare branches, the nectar value for the early bees, and the seed biology. The horticulturists value the celebrated display, and the growers of the ornamental park and garden trees keep the species in their catalogues.

Ecological & Economic Value & Wide Applications

In the spring garden, the Japanese flowering cherry froths the spring garden with the pale-pink bloom. The pink flowers mark the spring festival for the ages, the tree makes the fine specimen for the lawn and the avenue, and the blooms open for the early bees. It thrives in the deep, moist, well-drained, sunny ground. Pink-frothed, graceful and celebrated.

To grow the Japanese Flowering Cherry from seed, bury the seeds into the pots of the sandy soil in the autumn, then leave the pots out through the winter, and keep the sandy mix damp.

Bury the seeds into the pots of the sandy soil in the autumn, and give the young trees the open, sunny spot. The froth blooms come within a few seasons. The young trees come through in the spring, and the froth blooms will pink the spring.

Cerasus serrulata (Lindl.) G. Don ex London

Trees 3–8 m tall. Bark grayish brown to grayish black. Branchlets grayish white or tinged brown, glabrous. Winter buds ovoid, glabrous. Stipules linear, 5–8 mm, margin gland-tipped fimbriate. Petiole 1–1.5 cm, glabrous, sparsely pilose, or pubescent, apex with 1–3 rounded nectaries; leaf blade ovate-elliptic to obovate-elliptic, 5–9 × 2.5–5 cm, abaxially pale green and glabrous, sparsely pilose, or pubescent, adaxially dark green and glabrous or sparsely pilose, base rounded, margin acuminately serrate or biserrate and teeth with a minute apical gland, apex acuminate; secondary veins 6–8 on either side of midvein. Inflorescences corymbose-racemose or subumbellate, 2-or 3-flowered; involucral bracts brownish red, obovate-oblong, ca. 8 × 4 mm, abaxially glabrous, adaxially villous; peduncle 5–10 mm, glabrous; bracts brown or tinged greenish brown, 5–8 × 2.5–4 mm, margin glandular serrate. Pedicel 1.5–2.5 cm, glabrous, sparsely pilose, or pubescent. Hypanthium tubular, 5–6 × 2–3 mm, apically enlarged. Sepals triangular-lanceolate, ca. 5 mm, margin entire, apex acuminate to acute. Petals white or rarely pink, obovate, apex emarginate. Stamens ca. 38. Style glabrous. Drupe purplish black, globose to ovoid, 8–10 mm in diam. Fl. Apr–May, fr. May–Jul.