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Figure 146 'Kiku-shidare-zakura'. Photo by Arie Peterse, 6 May 1986.
Yokuon-en in Tokyo. Since then, one finds many kiku-zakura in lists of cherry collections, often described in no more detail than as having red, pink, or white flowers, sometimes given as a weeping tree. Clearly in old Japan kiku-zakura was simply used as a general name for cherries with many-petaled flowers; however, one clearly defined clonal cultivar 'Kiku-zakura' exists.