Japanese Flowering Cherries by Wybe Kuitert (free)

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Sato-yama. Literally a "village mountain." A forest used by local villagers to obtain fruits and timber for household use. Sato-zakura. Garden (or cultivated) cherries. Second-story flower. A small flower completely furnished with sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils in the heart of a larger (main) flower. Commonly found in chrysanthemum cherries. Sepal. One of usually five leaflike appendages of the calyx in a cherry flower that envelop the petals. Serrate. Notched like a saw. Shogun. Japanese feudal leader-general, having absolute, virtual power. Stipule. A small leaflike appendage at the base of the petiole. T Trifid. Having three divisions. Two-story flower. A flower that consists of a smaller flower, complete with sepals, petals, stamens, and pistils, in the heart of a larger (main) flower. Commonly found in chrysanthemum cherries. U Umbel. A cluster of flowers with stalks of approximately the same length that spring from one point on the twig. Umbellate. Having flowers in umbels. Urceolate. Pitcher-shaped. V Vexillate. Flaglike. Refers to petaloids, standing as little flags on a pole. Y Yae-zakura. Double-flowered cherries. Refers to cherries with about twenty-five to fifty petals per flower. Yama-zakura. Mountain (or wild) cherries. Also the folk name of a specific botanic cherry.


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