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single and double, with irregular triangular teeth with tiny glands, and with caudateacuminate tips. Mature leaves 815 × 48 cm, with distinctly whitish underside(!). Stipules large, to 3 cm, and much divided. Umbels with two to three flowers that are out with the foliage sprouts. Bud scales at umbels also sticky(!). Pedicels 1320 mm long, glabrous (sometimes with hairs), with a red shade. Flower buds elongated, satured pink (RHS 54C). Flower diameter 3.54.0 cm. Flowers with no distinct fragrance. Petals five, ovate, 1519 × 1214 mm. There is one pistil, perfect. The calyx is narrow and campanulate, about 5.5 mm long, glabrous, purple-red. Sepals are narrow and elongated, not serrated. Fruits purple-black, sour. Flowering season is mid-April in Tokyo. Prunus sargentii has a diploid set of chromosomes (2n = 16). The species is more variable than this description suggests. In Japan it may have some flowers in autumn as well. Accolade is an English hybrid between Prunus sargentii and a form of P. ×subhirtella, released from the Knap Hill Nurseries in 1952. The pink (RHS 62-C) semi-double flowers have about twelve petals and stand in umbels. In the climate of western Europe, this cultivar is a favorite park tree, and if grafted and trained on an erect stem, it is also useful as roadside tree. Propagation by summer cuttings has proved successful. Juddii was procured in 1914 at the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, by Edgar Anderson. Prunus ×juddii is a hybrid between Prunus sargentii and P. ×yedoensis. Prunus serrulata var. pubescens The center of distribution of Prunus serrulata var. pubescens is the Korean peninsula, but it is also found in northeastern and eastern China, the old Manchuria, and throughout Japan, excluding and the islands south of it. Typical of P. serrulata var. pubescens are the hairs found on its flower stalks, petiole, and often the underside of the leaf. The young foliage is not deep red-brown as is that of the Japanese mountain cherry (P. serrulata var. spontanea), and the mature leaves have a rather course serration. Prunus serrulata var. pubescens is called kasumi-zakura ("mist cherry") in Japan, as the trees may cover a mountainside with a spring mist of tiny, white flowers. Another name is ke-yama-zakura ("hairy mountain cherry").