Are Cherry Trees Evergreen or Deciduous? A Detailed Explanation of the Tree Characteristics of Cherry Blossoms

Every year in March, cherry blossoms bloom one after another across the regions, and many people make special trips to the major parks and scenic spots to admire the flowers, and with such a wide variety of cherry blossoms, are they evergreen or deciduous trees? What common varieties are there?

1. Are cherry blossoms evergreen or deciduous trees?

Cherry blossoms are deciduous trees, 4-16 m tall, with gray bark. The branchlets are pale purplish-brown, hairless, and the young twigs are green, sparsely covered with soft hairs. The flowering period is April, the inflorescence is umbellate-racemose, the peduncle is extremely short, with 3-4 flowers, blooming before the leaves, and the flower diameter is 3-3.5 cm.

2. What common varieties of cherry blossoms are there?

1. Tokyo cherry

The Tokyo cherry is native to Japan, and is cultivated in gardens in many parts of the world as well as in Chinese cities such as Beijing, Xi'an, Qingdao, Nanjing and Nanchang. It bears dense flowers in pink, and can be planted singly or in groups in courtyards, parks, lawns, lakesides or residential communities. There are many horticultural cultivars, grown for ornamental use.

2. Bellflower cherry

The bellflower cherry, also known as Fujian mountain cherry, bell-flowered cherry, Fujian mountain cherry and crimson cherry, is considered the earliest cherry blossom to open in a year in mainland China, usually flowering in mid-February, and is native to Taiwan, China.

3. Mountain cherry

The mountain cherry, also called wild Fukushima cherry, Fukushima cherry, green-barked cherry, Fujian mountain cherry, grass cherry and cherry blossom, grows in valley forests or is cultivated, at an altitude of 500-1500 m. It is widely used for greening roads, residential communities, parks, courtyards, riverbanks and so on, with obvious greening effects.

4. Yunnan early cherry

The Yunnan early cherry is native to Yunnan. Its flowering period is from the end of February to early March. It flowers before leafing out, and the flowers are deep red.

5. Kanzan cherry

The Kanzan cherry is commonly known as “red tassel”. It is a representative variety of double cherry, widely planted in China, with a flowering period at the end of March or the beginning of April, and the flowers and leaves open at the same time. It is relatively similar to the Ato-zakura, and its flowers are deep red.

6. Yellow-green cherry

The yellow-green cherry has pale yellow-green flowers and is a type of green cherry, with single and double forms, mostly double. When the green cherry first blooms, especially when the buds just open, the green feature is obvious, and the base of the petals is deeply green. In the middle and late stages, the color becomes paler, and the color at the tips gradually fades. After the petals are exposed to strong sunlight, the green will turn yellow-white.

The blooming times of cherry blossoms differ by variety and region, so friends who love cherry blossoms should not miss them.