Japanese mountain cherry blossoms are white and purplish red in color, while their leaf buds are purplish red, brown and yellow-green. The color contrasts with the hue of the leaves and buds, which has a very elegant temperament. This kind of cherry tree has a long life, so many of them have been designated as natural monuments in various places. It is mainly distributed in the southern half of Japan, and most of them are mountainous areas. The flowering period is from mid-March to late March (Kagoshima), from early to mid-April (Kyoto, Tokyo) and late April (Matsushima).
open classification: plants, angiosperms, botany, Rosaceae, dicotyledonous plants
Chinese name: Cerasus Serrulata (Lindl.) G. Don ex London
Alias: wild Sakura fukushima, Sakura
Haitang: 5-15. 5m-25m high. The bark is dark chestnut brown, smooth and shiny, with horizontal stripes. Branchlets glabrous. The leaves are ovate to ovoid-elliptic, with awned edges and no hair on both sides. Corymbose or raceme with white or pinkish flowers. Flowering period is April-May. The prismatic fruit is spherical, black and ripe in July.
key points of propagation: grafting propagation. Seedlings of cherry and mountain cherry can be used as rootstocks. Cutting in late March or budding in late August, after grafting, it can be cultivated for 3 -4 years, and can be planted out of the nursery. When planting, 15 kg -25 kg of decomposed compost is applied to each pit, and 1 kg -2 kg of ammonium sulfate is applied to each plant in July. After flowering and before germination in early spring, it is necessary to cut off dead branches, weak branches and long branches, and try to avoid pruning thick branches to keep the crown complete.
A brief history of cultivation and flower culture: Cherry blossoms are full of species, colorful and spectacular, and are important ornamental trees in gardens. Bai Juyi's poems were red in Tang Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, Pi Rixiu's poem "Graceful to pull out the incense and brush the hip flask ... only the spring breeze can help alone" describes the graceful cherry blossoms in spring. Cherry blossoms can also be used as roadside trees. Bark and fresh tender leaves are used medicinally.
ecological habits
like light. I like fertile, deep and well-drained slightly acidic soil, and neutral soil can also adapt to it, and it is not tolerant of salt and alkali. Cold-resistant, like the environment with high air humidity. Shallow root system, avoid stagnant water and low humidity. Poor resistance to smoke and harmful gases.
Morphological characteristics
Deciduous trees with dark brown and smooth bark; Branchlets are hairy when they are young. The leaves are oval to obovate, with a length of 5-12cm, the tip of the leaves is sharply tapered, the base of the leaves is round to broadly wedge-shaped, the edge of the leaves is finely serrated, and the veins on the back of the leaves and the petiole are pilose. Flowers are white to pale pink, 2-3 cm in diameter, often single, slightly fragrant; Calyx tube tubular and hairy; Pedicel about 2cm long, pubescent; 3-6 flowers are arranged in short racemes. Drupe, subglobose, black. Flowering in April, before or at the same time with the leaves.
The movie "Sakura Mountain"
is directed by Tetsuo Uehara, a famous Japanese director, and starring Rena Tanaka and Noriyuki Higashiyama. This film is based on the short story of novelist Shuhei Fujisawa.
late edo period. A place called Haiban in northern Japan. It is the season when cherry blossoms fly all over the sky. On the colorful forest path in Luoying, a woman named Yejiang came. Yejiang is still very young, but he has had two unhappy marriages. The first husband died soon after he got married, and the second husband, now, is a samurai named Ikemura, but he is extremely greedy for money. There is also an aunt at home who often laughs at Yejiang. Yejiang told herself that she would never allow her second marriage to fail, so she desperately endured all kinds of disappointments in life. On the way back to the mountain to sweep the grave, Yejiang was attracted by the cherry blossoms all over the mountains and couldn't leave. When she reached for a cherry blossom, she found that the branch was too high to reach. At this moment, a man's voice sounded behind him: "I'll fold it for you." Yejiang looked back ... The samurai who helped her fold Sakura was called Tezuka Ichiro. Yejiang was surprised when she heard this name, because Tezuka Ichiro was the blind date before she married the family in Iwamura. Tezuka had secretly seen the wild river in the dark, but because there were only orphans and widows in Tezuka's family, the blind date went away. This encounter under the cherry tree actually gave Yejiang a lot of courage, refreshed himself and then faced the life of the village family. Half a year later, Noe Jiang suddenly heard the news of Tezuka Ichiro from her husband. It turns out that Tezuka killed the minister who squeezed farmers and pocketed his own money. Hearing her husband's constant ridicule and abuse of Tezuka, he even said that Tezuka should cut his belly and die. When Yejiang finally broke out, he left his home in Iwamura. Originally, Tezuka should have been sentenced to commit suicide by caesarean section, but the peasants supported him with great momentum, so they had to wait until spring, when the vassal returned to China to make a judgment. It's spring again. There is still one month before the Lord returns home. Yejiang prayed for Tezuka day and night, and this day, she once again came to the cherry tree a year ago. Walking along the cherry trees, deep in the Woods, is Tezuka's home. Only one person walked out of the house, the old mother who was waiting for her son Ichiro to come home. From her mouth, Yejiang heard an unexpected sentence, which warmed Yejiang's body and melted her heart. The season of Yejiang has started again ...