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in identifying the cultivar as they sometimes show a green stripe at the back and then somehow come to resemble sepals. 'Imose' sheds its leaves very late; only in November do they turn yellow before falling. Prunus 'Imose' Less current synonym: Imosé Description: Tree umbrella-shaped. Earliest, young foliage before the blossom, brownish red (RHS 164-A) to bronze-green (RHS 152-B); in the flowering season leaves are well developed and shiny as if sprayed with a synthetic leaf gloss(!). Serration single with dark red glands. Stipules slightly divided, 1015 mm long. Corymbose inflorescence, with three to four flowers. Peduncles 1.54.0 cm long. Pedicels 1.53.0 cm long. Flower in bud purplish pink, becoming light pink to almost white (RHS 75-D) when completely opened. Flower 4.04.5 cm in diameter, opening to a rather flat plane, occasionally a few folded petals remain in the heart, especially with freshly opened flowers. Petals nineteen to twenty-three, oval, usually slightly emarginate at the top, 1921 × 1316 mm, one to five petaloids. Pistils usually two, perfect(!), 1213 mm long, longer than the longest stamens. The calyx is funnel-shaped, 5 × 4 mm, short, with a faint purple tinge; there is a distinct transition from pedicel to calyx. Sepals are elongated and triangular, 78 × 3.03.5 mm, unserrated, with five supplemental sepal-like petals. Few typical twin fruits(!). Flowering season is late April. 'Ito-kukuri' 'Ito-kukuri' is an old cherry. It was illustrated in a Japanese cherry book of the mideighteenth century and mentioned in the (Flower bed catalog) of 1681. The name is a combination of kukuri ("bundle" or "bunch") and ito (''threads"), and means "bundled with a thread." This parallels the name under which Miyoshi described the cherry in 1916, Prunus serrulata f. fasciculata; the Latin word fasciculata means "bundled" or "(growing) in clusters." In Japan one finds it as P. lannesiana 'Fasciculata'. The inflorescences are tightly set as fascicles (bunches of flowers at the end of the branches), an arrangement seen with other cherries as well. One corymb may have up to seven flowers, which must compete for space. A flowering branch looks as if it was artificially prepared for a floral show,