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white, single flowers, usually in two-fold, short-stalked inflorescences. Without its name plate, such a tree would be considered as just another Oshima cherry. Apart from the tree at Sumizome Temple, this form does not need to be kept in cultivation. Another 'Sumizome' was brought from Japan to the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, by Wilson, who described it in 1916. He speaks of white, single, or almost single flowers that are very large and fragrant, different from the form as it was described by Miyoshi. The description is too short and is at present not fixed to an extant tree. Years later Ingram received material from the Arnold Arboretum, but found it to be semidouble and pink. It, too, was something other than the cherry that either Miyoshi or Wilson had described as 'Sumizome'. Ingram (1929, 1948) relates that it exactly resembled "so far as my memory serves" the 'Sumizome' plants that he had seen in Japan. He concluded that there are two types of 'Sumizome' and described the semi-double pink cherry from the Arnold Arboretum as Prunus serrulata sumizome Ingram nov.
Figure 166 Ingram's 'Sumizome' with dark spot in the heart of the flower at the end of flowering. Photo by Arie Peterse, 1997, Opheusden, Nursery Peterse, Netherlands.