Who says there’s only Sakura flowers in Japan? In the United States also exist. Not only that, it celebrated the emergence of interest, especially in the spring. At that time pretty flowers are blooming. You could say, once a year celebration was waiting for everyone. As a result, Sakura flowers are already beautiful so feel very special celebration at the moment. If the Japanese call interest belonging to family Rosaceae and the genus Prunus is Sakura, the Americans and the British call it cherry blossom as a flower of the cherry tree, and indeed “cherry” in English is called ‘Japanese Flowering Cherry’. To call cherries, Japanese people say “sakuranbo”.
Somei Yoshino is a favorite of many types of cherry blossom in Japan than Yamazakura, Yaezakura, Shidarezakura, Kikuzakura, Shogetzu, kanzan, Fugenzo, Ichiy? and Ukon. Type the latter has a different color is yellow. While the most unique species are Shidarezakura (weeping cherry) which has branches sticking down like drops of tears. Popular in America is the kind of Somei Yoshino and Yaezakura. Sakura began to blossom around the month of April and May. While there are several types of blooming late fall or mid winter. Sakura was hanging season. As the warm air, they will bloom more quickly, while when the air is cooler, they bloom more slowly.
Certainly in the bright air and the wind was too strong. Beauty sakura has a spiritual and philosophical meaning of human life. For the Japanese, the flower symbolizes joy and sorrow, and remind people to always be grateful and appreciate the life and death. In addition, sakura also reminds us that everything has a opposite. There are sad, some happy. There is life, there comes a time to die. There was a time broke beautifully, and there are times when falling. And the celebration of the cherry blossoms, in Japan and the United States, have such meaning.
Cherry trees then why did it get into the United States? The story, in 1912, the Japanese government gave some 3,000 seedlings of cherry trees as a sign of friendship between the two countries. By the U.S. government, tree seedlings were planted on the land in Sakura Park in the middle of town and on the edge of the flow Tidal Basin, Washington DC. This is a very impressive selection of exotic as well as many surrounding historic buildings for the people of the United States. The buildings include Washington Monument, Lincoln Memorial, and the White House. Not only in these places, then the seeds are planted cherry trees in several other districts such as Los Angeles, Philladelphia, New Jersey, Georgia, and Washington, Seattle.