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stood as a poetic praise of the brilliant color of the flowers of this cherry. Miyoshi (1916), when describing this cherry as Prunus serrulata f. splendens, understood the comparison thus and applied the Latin splendens to 'Choshu-hizakura' with its singularly splendid pink, mostly single flowers. The blossom color is reminiscent of that of P. sargentii. In Japanese sources this cherry is known as P. lannesiana 'Chosiuhizakura'. The cumbersome 'Choshu-hizakura' is the correct name and means "Hizakura from " an ancient province now part of Yamaguchi Prefecture in southwestern . This name distinguishes it from other "Hizakura" cherries, a name loosely used for many centuries for cherries with deep pink flowers. Albert Wagner, for example, reported a dark-red ''Hiza-
Figure 98 'Choshu-hizakura'. Petals tend to be more round and more developed under better climatic conditions. Photo by Arie Peterse, 1997, Opheusden, Nursery Peterse, Netherlands.