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Figure 159 'Shibayama' was one of the standard garden forms to which others were compared in early cherry botany. From an 1891 reprint of Matsuoka (1758).
Prunus 'Shibayama' Description: Tree vase-shaped, to 8 m high. Young foliage bronze to green when unfolding; mature leaves sometimes show hairs on the main vein, serration double and coarse, sometimes like the Fuji cherry. Petiole with sporadic hairs. Corymbose inflorescence, with two to four flowers. Peduncles rather short, 1.01.5 cm long, thick, often flattened. Pedicels markedly long, 34 cm(!). Both occasionally slightly pubescent. Bud scales are orbicular, with few hairs. Flower in bud white with a little pink, becoming white (RHS 155-D) when completely opened, showing a purplish tinge in the heart (RHS 76-D) at the end of blooming. Flower 4.04.5 cm in diameter, opening to a flat plane, with a pleasant crushed-almondlike fragrance. Petals five, round, with wrinkles and irregular fringes at the top, about 15 mm in diameter. There is one pistil, perfect, a little shorter than the longest stamens. The calyx is campanulate, 6 Ă— 3 mm, with a purplish shade and occasionally a few hairs at the upper end; there is a distinct tran-