Edohigan Cherry (Prunus Itosakura) エドヒガン（江戸彼岸）

英語の後に日本語が続きます。

Edohigan cherry (Prunus itosakura) is one of the ten or eleven wild species of cherry trees native to Japan. "Edohigan" translates into "Tokyo higan," named after having being seen in many places around Tokyo, which had been called Edo before 1868 when renamed as Tokyo, and its characteristic of starting to flower in around the spring higan period, i.e., three days before and after the spring equinox (shunbun). Despite such a name, however, the cherry can now be found across Japan. Edohigan cherry trees can live for hundreds or even a thousand years, much longer than other cherry trees, whose lifespan is usually 60 to 100 years. Edohigan is a parent of Somei Yoshino but not only that. It's a parent of weeping cherry, too. 

2026/3/29

2026/3/29

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江戸彼岸桜です。東京近辺で春の彼岸の頃に咲き始めるのでエドヒガンだそうです。ソメイヨシノの親品種ですが、染井吉野よりはるかに長寿で中には千年以上生きる木もあるそうです。ちなみに枝垂れ桜の親も江戸彼岸。江戸彼岸が突然変異して枝が枝垂れるようになってできたのが枝垂れ桜だそうです。

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