This is prunus persica in Tokyo National Museum. The branches weep down to the ground and the flowers are red and white marble colored😲!
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| Red & white marble weeping prunus persica 源平枝垂れ桃 |
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| Red & white marble colored 赤白模様 |
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| Main building of Tokyo National Museum as the background 東京国立博物館本館を背景に |
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| The branches weep down to the ground 枝垂れ |
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| Flowering peach ハナモモ |
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| Weeping! 枝垂れ！ |
From a distance at first I thought this was a toy or something. But the closer I was to the tree, the clearer it became it's a real tree with red, white and red & white marble colored flowers! I once saw a Japanese apricot tree with a flower with the right half pink and the left white, but it was the first time to see a tree with such marble colored flowers.
In Japan, having red/pink and white flowers on a tree is called "Gen Pei" flowering because "Gen" or the "Gen clan" used white flags while the "Pei" or "Hei (which is pronounced 'Pei' after Gen) clan" using red flags in a civil war (1180-1185). The Gen clan and the Hei (Pei) clan are both samurai, two of the four most important clans that dominated Japanese politics during the Heian Period (794-1185) of Japanese history.
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東京国立博物館の源平枝垂れ花桃です。最初遠目におもちゃの木かなと思って近づいてみたら本物の木に本物の紅白の花が咲いてました。びっくり😲
以前、ピンクと白の花が両方咲いている梅を見たことはあるのですが、紅白しかもマーブル色は初めて。源平合戦で源氏が白旗、平氏が赤旗を用いていたことから、1本の木に赤と白の花が咲くことを「源平咲き」というそうです。
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