Cherry Blossom Flower Meaning and Legends: The Latest Detailed Guide
Cherry blossom, also known as Tokyo cherry and Japanese cherry, is a general term for several plants in the genus Cerasus of the rose family (Rosaceae). There are quite a large number of varieties, exceeding three hundred. Worldwide there are about 150 species of wild cherry, and China has more than 50. It symbolizes passion, purity and nobility, and is honored as the national flower of Japan. Now let us take a look at the flower meaning and legends of cherry blossom!
Cherry Blossom Flower Meaning
Cherry blossom is a symbol of love and hope, representing an elegant, simple and pure love. Cherry blossom is like an innocent young girl, quietly blooming in spring; a whole tree of white and pink cherry blossoms is the most beautiful language for speaking love to a sweetheart. Someone in your heart is like that lonely rain of cherry blossoms, slowly fading away into the depths of time, leaving behind eternal memories.
Cherry Blossom Blooming Period
The blooming period of cherry blossom is four to ten days. Cherry blossom usually blooms in April, with umbel-like racemose inflorescences, and bears fruit in May; the drupe is nearly spherical. The blooming period is very short, usually four to ten days. Its beauty lies in the passion of full bloom, and even more in the noble, pure and resolute and magnificent scene of the petals falling one after another after full bloom.
Legend of Cherry Blossom
In Japan, it is said that long ago there was a fairy named “Konohanasakuya-hime” (meaning cherry blossom). In November of one year, the fairy set out from Okinawa, passing through Kyushu, Kansai, Kanto and other places, and reached Hokkaido in May of the following year. Along the way, she scattered a flower symbolizing love and hope in every corner. To commemorate this fairy, the local people named this flower “cherry blossom”, and Japan thus became the “Land of Cherry Blossoms”.