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Prunus serrulata 'Taihaku'

This large-sized variety produces single pure white flowers. Coppery-red young leaves contrast dramatically with the rather large blossoms; its name means "great white cherry." Autumn color is yellow and orange. Plant hunter Collingwood Ingram is credited with reintroducing this variety. Ingram found a tree in a garden in Sussex, England, that had been sent long before from Japan. He was able to identify it from an 18th-century Japanese print as a variety long extinct in its native land.

Location: Japanese Hill-and-Pond Garden (North Perimeter)

Prunus serrulata 'Taihaku'

Photo by Wybe Kuitert, Kyoto Botanic Garden, Japan

From Japanese Flowering Cherries by Wybe Kuitert (courtesy Timber Press).

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