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too vigorous, the crown of the tree will come up in the middle and make a dome shaped like Mount Fuji. 'Shirotae' is not suitable as a roadside tree, but is perfect for a park or larger garden. Prunus 'Shirotae' Less current synonyms: Prunus serrulata f. albida, (not Fudschijama-Kirsche, not Mount Fuji, not Mount Fuji cherry) Description: Tree broad, umbrella-shaped with a flattened crown, to 5 m high and 1012 m wide. Young foliage green (RHS 146-B), well developed in the flowering season. Serration single, without glands but with extremely long teeth(!). Lower stipules slightly divided, 23 cm long. Corymbose inflorescence, with four to six flowers (to eight flowers in some young trees). Peduncles 2.55.0 cm long, sturdy, up to 3 mm thick(!). Pedicels 1.53.5 cm long. Flower in bud white with a faint pink tinge, becoming pure white (RHS 155-D) when completely opened. Flower 5.05.5 cm in diameter, fuzzy and curly, with pleasant almondlike fragrance. Petals five, with one to six extra (approximately petaloid) petals, orbicular, slightly emarginate at the top, 2224 Ă— 1921 mm, smooth, thin. There is one pistil, perfect, 1112 mm long, a little shorter than the longest stamens. The calyx is campanulate, 9 Ă— 4 mm, with a faint purple tinge; there is a distinct transition from pedicel to calyx. Sepals are elongated and triangular, at the base a little narrow, with a few teeth or green hairs. Flowering season is from late April to early May. 'Shirotae' has a triploid set of chromosomes (2n = 24). 'Shogetsu' Due to a misunderstanding in its history, this superb cherry became known as 'Shimidsuzakura' in the West. Miyoshi described it as Prunus serrulata var. superba and 'Shogetsu' in 1916. 'Shogetsu' appeared with 'Miyako' in early-twentieth-century lists of Japanese cultivar collections, such as of 1904 and at Arakawa in 1912, showing that these were two forms. Wilson described this 'Miyako' very briefly under the name P. lannesiana f. miyako; it is now extinct. Along with 'Miyako', a second, now extinct cherry, 'Oku-miyako', was offered for export by Japanese nurseries in the early twentieth century. This cherry was described by Miyoshi as P. serrulata f. longipes in 1916. It had