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Poems about a double-flowered cherry in Nara appear beginning in the mid-eleventh century in such works as (10371046), a compilation of poems in Chinese by Akihira Fujiwara. (compiled 11511154) by Akisuke Fujiwara and (12791283), also refer to this cherry. 'Nara-no-yae-zakura', the "double-cherry-fromNara", still cultivated in this city, is likely the same, unchanged form. (For more details, see the description of P. serrulata var. pubescens in chapter 4.) It is a small-flowered, double form of Prunus serrulata var. pubescens with deeply bifid petals tightly set together, giving a precisely regular fringe of the flower. A wild stand of this doubleflowered form of Prunus serrulata var. pubescens
Figure 9 'Nara-no-yae-zakura', the "double cherry from Nara," is a form of the Korean mountain cherry (Prunus serrulata var. pubescens). Photo of a clone known as 'Yono-no-yae-zakura' by Arie Peterse, 30 April 1996, Mishima.