41. Yoshino Cherry

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Beyond two Douglas firs you now behold the Quad's Yoshino cherries. This is a locally famous planting that brings the campus joy every March or early April, as the dark trunks and branches blossom with millions of white or faintest pink flowers. Photographers mill about, people have picnics, everyone smiles. These trees, like the 'Pink Beauty' crabapple were moved here from the arboretum because of highway construction; their loss was our gain.

In the long run, Yoshino cherry originated about 1870 in Tokyo, as a natural hybrid. It grows larger than most flowering cherries, and sets some fruit, albeit small and plain. Later in spring you can see Hisakura and Kwanzan cherries open their pinker, larger flowers.

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