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many-petaled flowers set in lush clusters were considered very "Chinese" by the Japanese of the time, resembling for instance the gorgeous flowers of Chinese tree peonies. For its botany and horticultural merits, though, 'Yokihi' resembles 'Edo-zakura' and 'Ito-kukuri'. It is distinguished from the two by its fewer flowers per cluster: in a corymb 'Yokihi' has three or four flowers about 4 cm in diameter. The flowers are pink in bud, paling to whitish light pink when opened completely. The inner tier of petals is a noticeably lighter shade than the outer row. The outer petals have a clearly darker pink hue at the top edge. The scales of the flower buds and leaf buds are large. 'Yokihi' grows into a tree of moderate size. Ingram imported 'Yokihi' to England. Miyoshi (1916) referred to it under the name Prunus serrulata Lindley f. mollis. One finds it also as P. lannesiana 'Mollis'.
Figure 187 'Yokihi'. Photo by Arie Peterse and Wybe Kuitert, 28 April 1996, Yuki * Experimental Station of the Flower Association of Japan, Ibaraki Prefecture.