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tainly must be called lovely, but the single, pale-pink flowers among the copper-brown young leaves do not make a gorgeous garden center plant, and it has never become a popular commercial cherry. The colored foliage and red bud scales and bracts inspired Miyoshi to use the Latin rubidus ("red") in naming it Prunus serrulata f. rubida. In Japan one finds it as P. lannesiana 'Rubida'. It bears many fertile little cherries, propagation from seed might explain the existence of slightly deviating forms. 'Bendono' presents in the Arboretum Kalmthout, Belgium, a beautiful light orange-red foliage in autumn. It is a very fertile cherry; the seedlings show only minor variability, which further confirms its wild origin.
Figure 96 'Bendono'. Photo by author, 13 April 1997, Yuki * Experimental Station of the Flower Association of Japan, Ibaraki Prefecture.