Japanese flowering cherry

...The Japanese Cherry Collection (1973) by Ooi Jisaburo and illustrated by Ota Hiroai contains 154 illustrations. In English, the fruit that is eaten, such as the Western sweet cherry, is called "cherry," while the flowers that have been improved in Japan are called "Japanese cherry," "flowering cherry," or "Japanese flowering cherry." Cherry leaves are alternate, have serrated edges, and many have one or more pairs of nectar glands at the top of the petiole. ...

*Some of the terms used to refer to "Japanese flowering cherry" are listed below.

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…大井次三郎著，太田洋愛画の《日本桜集》(1973)には154図がのっている。英語ではセイヨウミザクラのように実を食べるものをcherry，日本で改良された花をみるサクラをJapanese cherry,flowering cherry,Japanese flowering cherryと呼び，区別している。　サクラの葉は互生し，縁に鋸歯があり，多くは葉柄の上部に1対またはそれ以上のみつ腺がある。…

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