Cherry blossoms are trees, with a height of 4- 16 meters and gray bark. Branchlets are purplish brown, glabrous, shoots are green and sparsely pilose. Winter buds are oval and hairless. Leaf blade with small glands, dark green above, glabrous, light green below, sparsely pilose along veins, 7- 10 pairs of lateral veins; Petiole is 1.3- 1.5 cm long, densely pilose, with 1-2 glands or sometimes no glands at the top; Stipules lanceolate, with pinnate glandular teeth, pilose, caducous.
Extended information Cherry blossoms are temperate and subtropical tree species, like sunshine and warm and humid climate conditions, and have certain cold resistance. The soil requirement is not strict, and it is suitable for growing in loose and fertile sandy loam with good drainage, but it is not tolerant to salt and alkali. The root system is shallow, avoiding stagnant water and low-lying land. It has certain cold tolerance and drought tolerance, but it is not suitable for planting in coastal areas with typhoons because of its weak ability to resist smoke and wind.
There are more than 100 species of cherry blossoms, which are distributed in the temperate zone of the northern hemisphere: Asia, Europe to North America, and the main species are distributed in the west and southwest of China, Japan and South Korea. Garden cultivation is found in Beijing, Xi, Qingdao, Nanjing and Nanchang in China.
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