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Figure 116 'Goza-no-ma-nioi', tree shape. Photo by Arie Peterse, 30 April 1996, Mishima.
one pistil, perfect, 1214 mm long, about as long as or shorter than the longest stamens. The calyx is funnel-shaped to campanulate, 78 Ă— 4 mm, faintly purple; there is a distinct transition from pedicel to calyx. Sepals are wide-elongated; ca. 7 Ă— 4 mm, unserrated (but with a rare tooth), faintly purple; an occasional flower has six sepals. Flowering season is early May in Tokyo. 'Goza-no-ma-nioi' has a diploid set of chromosomes (2n = 16). 'Hakusan-hata-zakura' Hata-zakura means "flag cherry" and, in this situation, refers to the flaglike (vexillate) petals in the heart of the flower. Manabu Miyoshi and Ernest H. Wilson described a 'Hatazakura' that they found around 1916 in the Arakawa River collection. Miyoshi (1916) described it as Prunus serrulata f. vexillipetala and in the original description spoke of "many" flaglike petaloids and ten petals. This cherry does not seem to exist any longer, and it certainly is not the famous one known at present as 'Hata-zakura'. To-