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Figure 143 'Najima-zakura'. Photo by author, 19 April 1996, Yuki * Experimental Station of the Flower Association of Japan, Ibaraki Prefecture.
'Kiku-shidare-zakura' 'Kiku-shidare-zakura' ("chrysanthemum weeping cherry') is listed among the cherries that were planted along the Arakawa River near Tokyo around the turn of the century. Miyoshi saw it and described it in 1922. At that time it was not a rare sight in gardens of northern Japan, having been brought there from nurseries in Kita-Kuwata, a village north of in central Japan (Kayama and Kayama 1943). The Flower Association of Japan (1982) classifies this cherry as a cultivar of the Japanese mountain cherry and describes it under Prunus jamasakura 'Plena-pendula'. Kawasaki (1994) supposes an influence of P. serrulata var. pubescens and gives it under the name P. lannesiana 'Plena-pendula'. In nurseries in Western countries it is often grown on a stem of 1.5 to 1.8 m by training the top shoot along a stick. The abundant little globu-