Yoshino Cherry is in Full Bloom🌸 染井吉野（ソメイヨシノ）も満開🌸

Japanese follows English. 英語の後に日本語が続きます。

These are Yoshino cherry blossoms. Yoshino cherry or prunus x yedoensis 'Somei-yoshino' is the king of Japanese cherry trees!!

Prunus x yedoensis 'Somei-yoshino' 染井吉野

"Yoshino cherry" is the king of Japanese cherry trees やっぱり王様、染井吉野

Yoshino cherry blossoms ソメイヨシノ

Yoshino cherry on the left and Oshima cherry on the right 左が染井吉野、右が大島桜

I've listed below the cherry blossoms I've enjoyed (or am going to enjoy) in my neighborhood this spring.

• Yoshino cherry (prunus x yedoensis) - this post
• Taiwan cherry, Formosan cherry or bellflower cherry (prunus campanulata)
• Oshima cherry (prunus speciosa) - white Oshima; pink Oshima 
• Yoko cherry (prunus campanulata 'Yoko')
• Winter (October) cherry (cerasus subhirtella (miq.))
• Nanking cherry (prunus tomentosa)
• Weeping cherry (prunus spachiana)

Cherry blossoms are usually described as pink🌸, but not necessarily, like Oshima cherry being often white. The tone of pink also varies from white and very light pink (Oshima cherry) to deep pink (Yoko cherry) and reddish pink (Taiwan cherry). Personally, I love a mixture of white and pink Oshima cherry blossoms most, but any cherry blossoms are special to Japanese people, including myself. They evoke various feelings and emotions from joy and happiness when they are in bloom to a sense of ephemerality when their petals are blowing in the wind...  

The Japanese government lifted the state of emergency on March 22, but their handling of the situation has not improved almost at all for the last year, e.g., no made-in-Japan vaccines available and still an insufficient number of PCR tests for not only the original strain but also its variants...

I just hope to be able to go anywhere next year to see other types of cherry blossoms. 

The color contrast is so beautiful! 色の対比がきれい！

Mid-March 3月半ば

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とうとう染井吉野が（ほぼ）満開！というわけで、この春楽しんだ桜をまとめてみました。近所にこれだけあったなんて発見です！

• ソメイヨシノ（染井吉野）
• カンヒザクラ（寒緋桜）
• オオシマザクラ（大島桜）-  白、ピンク
• ヨウコウザクラ（陽光桜）
• 冬桜（十月桜）
• ユスラウメ（英桃） - 英語は「Nanking cherry」！
• シダレザクラ（枝垂桜）

個人的には白からピンクまで楽しめる大島桜が一番好きです。緊急事態宣言明けました。いろいろなところに桜を見に行ける日が一日も早く来ることを心から願っています🌸

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