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Prunus campanulata Maximowicz Bell-flowered cherry, kan-hi-zakura Synonyms: Formosan cherry, hikan-zakura, Taiwan cherry Description: Tree rather small, with spreading, usually rather blackish branches. Young foliage greenish, appearing after the flowering. Serration double and single, with acute tips. Mature leaves often show the main vein at the back with a reddish shade, similar to the reddish petiole. Umbels carry three to four (or more) flowers. Peduncles short, about 5 mm. Pedicels 715 mm long. Flower diameter 1 cm when tightly campanulate, or up to 3.5 cm when petals bend out; flowers nodding(!), sometimes bleak pink, or pink, but usually deep purplish red(!), without distinct fragrance. Petals five, oval to ovate, bifid, about 1 cm long. There is one pistil, perfect. The calyx is campanulate and deep red, usually deeper than the petals, glabrous(!). Sepals triangular, not serrated, the same color as the calyx,
Figure 51 The bell-flowered cherry (Prunus campanulata). Photo by author, 20 March 1996, Tokyo.